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Macaulay Honors College
at Baruch, Spring 2011Professor Els de Graauw
ITF Emily Sherwood -
Authors
▪ Alyssa Alicino
▪ Brandon Baksh
▪ Ru Xiao Chen
▪ Belinda Chiu
▪ Els de Graauw
▪ Becca Glickman
▪ Elisabeth Greenberg
▪ Doris Hu
▪ Peky Huang
▪ Toby Joseph
▪ Haesol Jun
▪ Nika Kartvelishvili
▪ Farrukh Khan
▪ Holly Kiang
▪ Julian Kipnis
▪ Kar Yi Lim
▪ Yang Lin
▪ Cait McCarthy
▪ Sofya Moshkovich
▪ Mariya Tuchinskaya
▪ Ying Zhang Login
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Just Pretend to Understand
Kevin is a Chinese immigrant who came to the United States in 2003 when he was 18 years old. He mentioned that he continues to have difficulty with comprehending English and sometimes he pretends to understand what others say:
I just learned to understand some topics. Sometimes they [are] jokes [and I’m] like how to hell [was that] so funny? It actually happens to me right now sometimes [and that] I don’t know that. So I’m like okay.”
The Importance of Family Support
Kevin is a Chinese immigrant who came into the United States in 2003 when he was 18 years old. Here, he comments on how lucky he was to have his family help him with the integration process:
Well… In terms of the life, the living here is easy… Like I came here with my whole family. So like…[laughs] my family take care of me. So, I didn’t feel the difficulty, but like for some international student, they say that it’s really hard for them. Everything… cause they have to take care of everything by themselves… and they gotta they gotta take care [of] housing, you know, […] like find a job something like that anything. […] I think I’m lucky. I come with my family so I don’t really have to take care many of thing.”
Not Democratic. Not Republian. Just Neutral.
Kevin is a Chinese immigrant who came into the United States in 2003 when he was 18 years old. He commented on his lack of partisanship:
Well, naturally I don’t I don’t have a [political] side. Naturally I don’t take sides… I’m neutral.”
Passive Discrimination
Kevin is a Chinese immigrant who came into the United States in 2003 when he was 18 years old. He commented that at times he feels he is being treated differently because he is an immigrant:
Well, I don’t really feel about it, but like sometimes I know it, but like, you know, the people here don’t want to be mean. They try to be nice, but like sometimes I can feel, you know, like when they do what they do… they think I am a foreigner. They will maybe, like, treat me differently.”
Not the English I Learned Back Home
Kevin is a Chinese immigrant who migrated to the United States in 2003 when he was 18 years old. He commented that even though he learned English in China, he still had trouble speaking and understanding English here in New York City:
I mean like before… like after I came…. here I learned English for like few years before I come here, but when I go out, I just don’t really [know] what people are saying and I was like, “do I know English?” This was a foreign land! Like sometimes you know the accent and you know sometimes people speak so fast like really get some time to get used to.”
