#SUCKS to be an immigrant

[let-me-cry-in-peace-guys]

no one

talks about how when you speak two languages you feel like you speak NO language because I'm not fluent enough in korean to communicate without weird pauses but also i have an accent in english that i HATE SO MUCH and sometimes i mispronounce words??

I've dont have a home country because i'm australian, born and raised, and yet australia will never fully accept me because of the way I speak my O's and U's and the way my eyes are slanted.

Too foreign to be korean, and yet too korean to be australian. where do i belong? Society casts me out into the grey area and puts up steel bars to keep me out.

My immigrant curse is that I am always destined to be an outcast. I would carve out bloody flesh with rusted knives and rearrange my bones a million times to become one of them, but I'm too much for Korea and their rigid cultural rules, and too rigid for Australia and it's golden freedom.

I mispronouce a word, two words, my whole sentance is wrong to their ears, and they laugh at me, looking at me like I am 2 rather than 18. Like I am below them and their blue-blonde-white grace.

I look at fair skinned women and men. They pronounce everything perfectly. They re-enforce my prison bars, and I stay in my place. my "place". what is my place? what is my place as an immigrant-not-korean-not-australian monstosity? I have no culture because I have no home.

I wish I was white.

#immigrant children #POV immigrant child #SUCKS to be an immigrant #this is my experience lmao if u disagree kindly fuck off

[olive-garden-hoe]

Being multilingual is just *tries to open the emojis* *accidentally hits the switch keyboard* *αρχίζει να πληκτρολογεί στα ελληνικά* *desperately trying to switch back to English* * sélectionne le clavier français*

#multilingual #multilinguism #no one @ me about the grammar #my grammar in Greek and French literally suck #i just know the basic stuff #i know them because they’re household languages #Greek immigrant #French #québécois #québec #child of immigrants #edit: fixed the Greek text #again Greek is a household language I rarely use outside of my family #so my grammar and vocabulary suck

[firstkillers]

Anyways this whole submarine thing has proven that people on this site aren’t actually able to commit to eating the rich.

#oh no there is a 19 year old on there #he’s a little itty bitty kid who has no thoughts of his own #so he signed a legal document that said you could die in this thing #fuck that #he’s 19 rich kid #he knows exactly what he's doing #they made their decisions to go into that death tube to go to a mass grave of working class and immigrants #these billionaires have contributed to the climate crisis #the so called kid #would have one day also have become another rich person sucking the life out of the world #so fuck him and fuck the rest of them #let the sea take their souls #it is their retribution for the souls of immigrants and working people they have taken #oceangate #titan #titanic

[hussyknee]

Whenever Brits are like "tea is our national drink, our culture, our personality, our mental health" I think of our hill country blanketed in a patchwork quilt of human suffering and ongoing violent colonialism and want to smash all their tea cups. Your genocidal leaf juice is nothing to be proud of. The present day tea pluckers are the descendants of the Indians you enslaved and they still live in unthinkable poverty in the line houses you built to house them like cattle. The families whose farmlands you robbed have been starving for generations. Every sip of your leaf juice is soaked in blood and you drink it like vampires.

Tea will never belong to you. It's our legacy of grief, and your shame.

Drink your tea and shut the fuck up.

#sri lanka #'but my parents were immigrants!' 'and you're living in a genocidal country that's still sucking the marrow from the global south. so.' #'but my parents were indians!' 'ok? drink your chai and think about the stateless south indian tea pluckers? what is your point?' #if you live in britain you enjoy the fruits of its empire even if you're at the bottom of the food chain #that's why middle class Asians and Africans migrate to europe even if it means they have to earn a living on minimum wage #you can't share a race and country with sue braverman and tell me that your origins can make you any less complicit #british culture #tea #british empire #colonialism #british colonialism #colonization #extractive colonialism #tourism #capitalism #indigenous rights #indian ocean slavery #slavery #white supremacy #knee of huss #food culture #cash crops #monoagriculture #ecocide

[accras]

A married couple who fled Haiti for Virginia achieved their American dream when they opened a variety market on the Eastern Shore, selling hard-to-find spices, sodas and rice to the region’s growing Haitian community.

When they added a Haitian food truck, people drove from an hour away for freshly cooked oxtail, fried plantains and marinated pork.

But Clemene Bastien and Theslet Benoir are now suing the town of Parksley, alleging that it forced their food truck to close. The couple also say Parksley Town Council member Henry Nicholson cut the mobile kitchen’s water line and screamed, “Go back to your own country!”

“When we first opened, there were a lot of people” ordering food, Bastien said, speaking through an interpreter. “And the day after, there were a lot of people. And then … they started harassing us.”

A federal lawsuit claims the town passed a food truck ban that targeted the couple, then threatened them with fines and imprisonment when they raised concerns. They’re being represented by the Institute for Justice, a law firm that described a “string of abuses” in the historic railroad town of about 800 people.

“If Theslet and Clemene were not of Haitian descent, Parksley’s town government would not have engaged in this abusive conduct,” the lawsuit states.

#racism #racial profiling #anti immigrant #virginia #hey it's 2024 in the good ole USA and guess what? #America still sucks #America was never great

[isa-ah]

it really sucks that the kind of men I'm attracted to are so demonized. I'm from Appalachia! I like those quiet rugged broke mountain men! fat men hairy men autistic men mute men impoverished men making do- ideally all of the above. but when have ANY of those traits ever been on a man that wasnt a villain? or written to be a freak? nvm in a GAY romance. fucking suckage.

#so tired of seeing people like me treated like shit im basically any media theyre in #when has a man with even 2 of those traits been a love interest nvm 3+ #the number of the hills have eyes and deliversnce jokes ive had to hear in my life about it. man. #appalachia is a melting pot of irish immigrants freed slaves and choctaw tribes. the well of culture runs DEEP #and dont even get me started on the marketability done to 'cryptids' and how the superstitions and stories are used in horror media esp #it fucking SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[milkbreadtoast]

(random) ngl before i started learning korean i felt like the worst failure of a korean but now i feel like the best failure of a korean (/j) HAHA

like im struggling to speak but least im speaking..!! I feel like I've restored an essential piece of myself that was missing...

#i tweeted this but im prob gonna delete it soon so #puts it here too in case ppl can relate...? lol #since i know its a common immigrant kid experience... #being disconnected from your heritage language i mean #for various reasons... #i thought i was ok w it but its rly a horrible feeling #like i said it felt like smth was missing #and i kinda jokingly self deprecatingly worded it as the best failure of a korean #but thats kind of... accurate fmfbnf like i feel embarrassed that im not fluent and feel like im a baby flailing my arms #but i still feel like even if im imperfect im more... complete #that isnt to say i was incomplete before... or anyone in the same situation is. but its still an exuberant feeling #and helps me get over feeling embarrassed that i suck at kr so bad. like AT LEAST I CAN COMMUNICATE NOW!!! #talk tag #laughing to myself rmbring that me and prob 1000s of other asian americans prob wrote an essay abt being detached from our culture for #our college/scholarship/etc essays #well i didnt know i was lgbt then i had to write abt smth!! and it was eating me up all the time... #i rly hope i can improve my kr more in the coming yrs

[burinazar]

Oh, wait, wait, ok, I can tell tumblr my news now.

I was accepted into the JET Program and will be moving to Japan for one year starting in late summer to teach English. : )

I don't know how many other applicants have ever had either of my specific application 'angles'. I think they were both pretty weird, but also very, very me, and I'm pleasantly surprised that they seemed to have worked, going off both by the acceptance and the very positive and warm reactions I got during the interview I had. These were:

Science/scicomm/museum background + implying mutual interest in and love of like insects and sea life could be an avenue of intercultural connection and exchange

India and Japan have always struck me as weirdly similar in ways nobody seems to discuss, especially in both being simultaneously hurtling into modernity and deeply traditional/conservative in many ways and places

So. Is this a silly idea considering most people in this program are fresh college grads, and people my age are expected to maybe be getting more settled rather than hopping continents? Is this a scary idea, considering I'll have to uproot all my shit and go exist in a foreign country whose language I really don't know beyond miniscule smatterings? I mean, hmm, yes on both counts, but I'm very excited. On count one, I'd only get older in the future and demonstrably *don't* already have a settled life and career here to disrupt (lol), and on count two...guys, I'm so so tired of letting fear and inertia make my life decisions.

Time to pack up and store most of my shit and end my lease and. Yeah. Also I haven't actually been to India in five years and will probably try to visit my relatives there in the coming months since idk if i'd had an opportunity for a prolonged visit in the future during the one year (at least) in jp. I'll also be probably selling, trading, or giving away a lot more of my hobby shit (that was sort of an ongoing project already but since I'll be unable to use most of it for a year plus it's another reason to do so), so uh, if you've ever wished I would sell any of my dolls now might be time to commit BJD Hobby Taboo and ask me lol. And, obviously, I'll be studying more Japanese, because mine is incredibly へたくそ at the moment. So much to do. But I'm really excited. And thank you to all of y'all that have been encouraging to me about anything related to this matter <3

#i don't know where they'll put me but i asked for ibaraki prefecture #during my research i became really endeared by the idea of The Prefecture Everyone Thinks is Ugly and Boring lol #seems like a good combo of 'not too far from urban things + cost of living + genuinely there ARE nice natural and cultural things there' #they could put me anywhere though lol #already one of my fandom friends from there wants to meet up ;; im so flattered #im obviously not going there to do doll and fandom bullshit but that stuff will be a nice bonus in off time #i have very little idea on what to expect specifically re japanese attitudes to south asian people and am interested to find out #and maybe be a bunch of kids' first exposure to both americans and south asians and like immigrants as a concept : 3 #keeping my expectations tempered though. It Could Suck #but it'll suck in a novel way and truly i thrive on novelty even though often i take the easy and familiar path to try to protect myself #just. aaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa scary but exciting im so excited

[evermoredeluxe]

i should be granted US citizenship because of the fact that im terrorized by a US citizen (aka taylor swift) weekly. and im not joking.

#i said this to my friend and she laughed so hard #being an immigrant sucks ASS and you can not change my mind about it #arshia talks

[meteorherd]

being a grader has given me a very important lesson in practicing patience and empathy but i can only read "i explored a new culture for this diversity assignment by going to a different church than the one i went to my entire life as a wasp american" so many times

#வார்த்தைகள் #LIKE GIRL GO TO AN ETHNIC RESTAURANT AND TALK ABOUT IT IT IS LITERALLY THE SIMPLEST THING.... #this whole class is literally about national identity and immigration. and all these white kids suck ass unfortunately.

[rottmnt-residuum]

Would Splinter be able to get the bill to apply to him since he actually was a human and probably has paperwork somewhere?

nope!

#residual asks #im sure he does have his paperwork #being an immigrant and all. idk if he was granted citizenship or something but like #...america sucks for a lot of reasons #(being in the battle nexus for ten years does not seem conductive to keeping track of your papers though) #if he does have his documents the bill still wouldn't apply #more criteria and all that #residuum wb

[kirk-goes-to-gallifrey]

how can a body this small produce so much mucus?

please my nose is gonna fall off from all the blowing I can't take this anymore

#there was a sudden drop in temperature #and I had to stand in the 8C degree rain for 2 hours in front of the federal police office yesterday #waiting to get my residency permit (oh how it sucks to be an immigrant) #and now my throat is swollen and my nose won't stop running #and I really need to WORK #why must this happen #can't life give me a break?

[gojuo]

fomo on ff7 rebirth hitting hard bc im too busy in life to play games right now + i made a promise to myself to never buy games at full price ever again

#i live and breathe work now btw 😃 leave home early come home late #i dont even eat dinner anymore bc i just dont have the time but also after a full day worth of work i dont #have an appetite anymore. pretty bad for my ed but i need to have money 😃😃 #it sucks when ur parents are poor bc i dont work a salary for myself i work a salary for 3 people lmao but what can you do ... #this is the life of a second gen immigrant. nothing i can do about it #bakma bana

[vyeoh]

Hi btw can I say thank you for actually explaining instead of immediately jumping to being defensive? Thanks to you I actually now know WHY my take was bad so I can now improve my worldview. So yeah, thanks for giving constructive criticism and trying to understand they why behind what I said. I really appreciate it.

No problem, I've been in activism circles both in person and online for years and have been deeply humbled many times via various levels of done-with-my-bullshit. It always sucked at the time but ultimately I think it aways made me rethink my worldview to be better. So I'm always glad to pass that onto other lmao

#vio.ask #and good on you genuinely for listening #also i saw you were getting anon hate about this which is stupud and sucks :( #i think it also helps when u come from an immigrant/ sencond culture community bc u are a lot more aware of cultural ignorance

[garyfischy]

The tumblr mindset of "well this country is bad so i'm glad their civilians are suffering. This country is good so its ok that their government surveils and propagandizes" is bafflingly stupid

#russia cracking down on civlian dissent sucks but they deserve it because Russia Bad is just amazing mental gymnastics #american gay people have no understanding of affairs in other countries beyond the usa #being a second gen immigrant im glad i didnt fall into that rut of believing that the us is some kind of lgbt haven #fish talks

[clairethekiwi]

Put women in charge of the USA !!!! Or a young person !!!!!

#stop making old men presidential candidates they know $hit about stuff #oh! and Republicans suck !!!!! #stop treating me like I'm a pariah or war criminal over my identity !!!!! #y'all don't even punish actual war criminals so it isn't fair !!!!! #oh! and stop genocide ! #and stop treating poor people or immigrants like parasites #anti usa