Negative Effects Of Being A First Generation

Effects of Being a First Gen. American Traditionally growing as an American kid should be pretty easy and fun. For the most part it should be going to pool parties and eating hot dogs with a group of friends or neighbors. Occasionally going out to the movies, amusement parks, and bowling alleys and other things that you would expect a kid to go to. For the most part its true, but not if you live in a first generation American family. First Generation Americans are people that immigrated to the United States, usually being born in another country. They are very peculiar to the American eye, because of the culture and personalities they bring along. Most immigrants usually have a stereotype of what the American people are like, and it differs

Immigrant parents don’t like the idea of westernization, mainly because there cultures have been with them for many centuries and they don’t feel as if they should change just because they came here. They are very ignorant on understanding new concepts and ideas because they feel as if their way of life was perfect and anything new is unnecessary. Me being a first generation American as well, one thing I hate that my parents do is expecting everything I do to be perfect and anything less a failure caused by the American culture.

Living in an immigrant family, I learn a lot about both cultures and understand most reason on why things are the way they are. There are plenty of things I didn’t get to experience while I was younger and mostly because of my parent’s traditions and their beliefs about how I should have been raised. There were also a lot of things that indirectly caused me to succeed in, because of different lifestyle. There are plenty of things that happen to people like me, some of the more popular ones are: Getting good grades in school; Having a very small social life; Becoming well mannered; Never getting complimented