Being from rural Maine....?

Cvjn
Tue, 29 May 2007 15:02:29 +0000

How much does this help me, being from rural Maine? My town is pretty much 97% white, so I jut out quite a bit, standing among a pool of Caucasians. Not to mention, there is a lot of ignorance and intolerance floating around, as there are several racists who are rather open about it. Unfortunately, homosexuality is severely repressed at my school, as it is generally badly looked upon. There are only like 4-6 students out of 800 who are openly gay.



Really not much unless it’s somehow really screwing up graduation rates and it’s a bad neighbor hood and you’re succeeding despite the troubles. I come from a school that’s 99% white, and town that’s 98% white, and I don’t think I had any advantage at all being Asian.



How much does being first generation help, by the way?



It helps, but I don’t weigh it as much as some posters on this board.



How much does it help to be an immigrant—even though I immigrated here from China when I was 2 years old?



I’m an immigrant from China at 5 years old. I’m pretty sure it didn’t help me much, if anything, it probably hurt me. I don’t think they care too much about that far past.