Is anyone here an Immigrant to the U.S.?

[bombshoo]

If anyone here is an immigrant to the United States, your help would be greatly appriciated. I have a project for school where I was asked to interview five immigrants about what their experiance is/was like. I had all my people figured out, then unfortunatly, one of them had to go back to Dominican Republic last minute due to the death of a family member, and I can't even seem to get in contact with the back up I had for him. The project is due tommarow (April 24) So Basically I am asking, if you are an immigrant, could you please shortly answer these few questions? Thanks alot.
BTW, if you want to answer but don't feel comfortable responding on here, you can email me your answers at _______ or PM them.

1. What is your name and age?

2. What is your country of origin?

3. What was your initial destination when coming to the United States?

4. What year did you immigrate?

5. Why did you leave your home country?

6. Did you face any difficulties when you first arrived?

7. Did you embrace or reject any American traditions?

8. Have you continued or rejected any traditions from your home country?

9. What are the biggest differences between your home country and the United States?

10. What do you miss most about your home country?

11. Is there anything else you would like to add?

 

[downtown]

I am not an immigrant, but my parents are

 

[Samson]

I am not, but my brother is (he is on a HB1 vista, but they are talking about getting him a green card). I think I can answer for him (I have spent a few months over there over the last few years, and we are still quite close), but you will probably get a better answer from someone else.

1. What is your name and age?

PM'ed hi sname. 28.

2. What is your country of origin?

UK.

3. What was your initial destination when coming to the United States?

Reno.

4. What year did you immigrate?

2002.

5. Why did you leave your home country?

For a good job (games programming).

6. Did you face any difficulties when you first arrived?

I am not aware of any major problems. I belive the distance he was from anyone he knew was a bit of a downer at first, but he made some good friends.

7. Did you embrace or reject any American traditions?

He drove to work even though it was less than 5 miniutes on a push bike.
He put on loads of weight.
He does loads of hours at work (liek up to 20 hours per day when a release is due).

8. Have you continued or rejected any traditions from your home country?

Suet pudding at christmas.
Driving a small fast car.

9. What are the biggest differences between your home country and the United States?

The amount of empty space.

10. What do you miss most about your home country?

Hard to answer this for him, but I am fairly sure it is the closesnes of family and friends.

11. Is there anything else you would like to add?

Nope.

HTH

 

[Turner]

@Bombshoo - I edited your email addy so it won't get harvested by any kind of spider/search engine.

 

[jamiethearcher]

I will PM you my answers

 

[Leonel]

Do United States citizens count? Because I was born and lived most of my life in Asia.

 

[Masquerouge]

1. What is your name and age?

I'll PM you my name. I'm 29.

2. What is your country of origin?
France

3. What was your initial destination when coming to the United States?
San Jose, CA

4. What year did you immigrate?
2005

5. Why did you leave your home country?
My wife was working for eBay in France and asked to be transferred to eBay HQ. I quit my job and followed her.

6. Did you face any difficulties when you first arrived?
No, not really.

7. Did you embrace or reject any American traditions?
I don't think these two terms can apply, they're too strong. About US holidays, we're happy to accept invitations for Thanksgiving, 4th of July or Halloween, but we'll not celebrate these by ourselves. I'm not aware of other specific traditions.



8. Have you continued or rejected any traditions from your home country?
Mostly we continued what's convenient and stopped what would be too expensive/complicated to do here. But we were not too much into traditions anyway

9. What are the biggest differences between your home country and the United States?
Political Correctness. I had to be really careful about what I was joking about here, and people usually do not "get" sarcasm and irony.




10. What do you miss most about your home country?
CHEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!!! And good bread too.

11. Is there anything else you would like to add?
Despite what people may believe, there is not a huge difference between France and California (I won't say the US... ). When other French immigrants that I know had problems, that was mostly because of prejudices (on both sides).

 

[GenMarshall]

I am not an immigrant, though my great-great-grandparents on my mother's side were as well as my great-grandparents on my father's side.

 

[Masquerouge]

I am not an immigrant, though my great-great-grandparents on my mother's side were as well as my great-grandparents on my father's side.

Isn't that basically the case for 95% of all Americans?

 

[.Shane.]

Isn't that basically the case for 95% of all Americans?

Probably 99.99% The Indian population, as a per capita %, is infantesimal (sp?).

 

[Leonel]

Probably 99.99% The Indian population, as a per capita %, is infantesimal (sp?).

Actually probably 100% since it's theorized that Native American's came to America via land bridge or something.

 

[.Shane.]

Actually probably 100% since it's theorized that Native American's came to America via land bridge or something.

Its pretty much a fact. So, yes you could call them, technically, the "first immigrants" or "Siberian Americans"

 

[IglooDame]

Its pretty much a fact. So, yes you could call them, technically, the "first immigrants" or "Siberian Americans"

Thanks, that's the best laugh I've had in a couple days - they're not Native Americans anymore, they're Siberian-Americans. Hyphenated Americans taken to the logical extreme....

 

[bombshoo]

Thanks to everyone who answered so far. I did this early this morning before as kind of a last ditch attempt to get my project done, and am actually suprised with how good of results I got. I was half expecting nothing and to be screwed.