Personal Narrative: My Parent's Journey

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My parents journey from Vietnam to America has impacted me emotionally through out the years by the stories they tell me. For them to say their aspiration was to come to America to have greater opportunities, for there family is breath taking. Without my parent’s journey and stories, my identity would be so plain and incomplete. For my parents, coming to America was very challenging, they wanted to leave their country due to the challenging lifestyle and opportunities. Although coming to America was challenging because of the certain qualifications; When my parents came to America, they did not understand much English. They understood some English because they’ve studied English in the Philippines before coming to America. They worked very

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