Author: Kevin (Page 1 of 2)

I am a first generation college student that has made it to a higher education. And of course my twin sister. I see myself as the first twin brother that has come out of the land of pride and production. I am from Staten Island, New York, but that’s just where I geographically from, when in reality I came from a strong family of immigrants. My parents both came to the United States as young 28, and 30-year-old parents of Five children. I did not come until Four years later that I came with my sister by my side, I came into the world, and was already marked with the name of an anchor baby. As I grow up I did not really know what I was, what I did was always question myself, am I just a reason to keep my parents here longer? Why am I called an anchor baby? I felt that I did not fit in but my schools I went to school always had a mixture of students. I did not know what I was or who I was, I had not direct connection to any ethnicity. When I was in elementary school there where a mixture of Whites, Asians, Latinos, and African Americans ethnicities, grow up in a multicultural area I didn’t think about race  or class as much as late in life. Race was a topic that I did not really think and talked about until I was a teenager. And I know that in this world race is everything and I could not understand what the world was trying to say to me. And we all see other races as dominant then others. And people do not know that we are all the same and human.One time my sister and I went to the mall. A racist woman in her 50s came to us and told us to go back to your country. because you steal our jobs and other things that are very inappropriate. We just avoided it and I was upset  because she only listened to one resource which was fake news. We all need to listen to people’s point of view to understand them. However I do not care what she says and I keep pursuing my dreams. Most Importantly  I have pride in where I came from. I want to see my parents happy that I love them and thank you for bringing me here. There are going to be people that are going to let you down but just avoid them and never ever stop pursuing your dream.