In “The Good Immigrant Student” by Bich Minh Nguyen, the author shares her story of being an immigrant student in the United States. In Paragraph 28 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.” By that I think she means she would like to speak on what its like being an immigrant child attending an American school but thinks she cannot speak on behalf of the rest of them. Mainly because she thinks that everyone has their own emotions and views things separately. Everyone has different experiences. Also in the text Nguyen says “I wanted to disappear. I was not brave enough to shrug my shoulders and flaunt my difference: because I could not disappear into the crowd.” This shows that she is different from the students in terms of the way she goes about social interactions. Which is why she cannot make a broad accurate statement because she does not have the same experiences as everyone else.

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