Pedro, a 26-year-old male immigrant from Brazil, came to the United States at age 13. Here, he talks about the misconceptions people in Brazil have of the United States:
They actually thought that the people who are able to move [to the U.S.] and moved were going to improve their lives. […] Actually, when I came back to visit Brazil, people […] thought it was some big thing, and that I had a lot of money and stuff like that, which is […] not the case. But people have false impressions. Just because you move to the United States, things might be a little different, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to, you know, win the lottery.”
