Blog # 5

In paragraph 28 when Nguyen says ”I would like to make a broad accurate statement about immigrant children in schools I would like to speak for them (us).I hesitate: I cannot I think she means she cant speak for every immigrant because they all have different experiences even though they all might be immigrants you don’t if they each went through the same thing. Nguyen cant make a ”broad accurate statement because what she went through as a immigrant can be different from what some one else went through as a immigrant.  In paragraph 28 she also says ”Still, I think of an Indian friend of mine who told an elementary school experience in which blond school child told the teacher ” I cant sit by her. My mom said I cant sit by any one whos brown”. And another friend, whose family immigrated around the same time mine did, whose second grade teacher used her as vocabulary example Children, this is what a foreigner is”. with that being said Nguyen was trying to point out that she cant speak for every immigrant because  not every immigrant has the same story.

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