6 Things All Immigrant Kids Experience

Growing up in an immigrant family has its quirks - like, a lot of them.
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[@cringeeisforrealz9748]

I can DEFINITELY relate to this.I have immigrant parents.I've only slept over twice.And that was at my cousin's house.

[@thegigadykid1]

Lol right.

[@whyarewestillhere4063]

cringee is for realz Same :(

[@FloMillitary]

ikr

[@RVforestgreen]

Same

[@mersedes159]

Same

[@bestatnba2k]

Since when has aj+ turned into buzzfeedyellow

[@YousufElJayyousi]

I actually thought this was buzzfeed until I read your comment lol

[@HitomiNoRyu]

+nick jones Wait...this isn't buzzfeed?! I'M LOST HELP!!

[@TheJazzy7]

+nick jones Since left wingers couldn't come up with original content.

[@unknownhuman7919]

"Hamas" instead of "Abas" ...LOL

[@thegigadykid1]

Lol right

[@mistermood4164]

LOL the dating point is spot on. XD

[@afiqzul-star8768]

I got the problem of dating. People will always hide their true self even when dating. I had that advice from adults and friends. And my friends who chose dating didn't really turn out so good.

[@mistermood4164]

Afiq Zulkarnain yes, but how will you find a partner without mingling?

[@afiqzul-star8768]

Mister mood Either you marry a close friend that you 100% know and they have the same feelings towards you and leave to faith or have an arranged marriage with a person you (or your parents) know is faithful and a good person. Your chances of divorce is lower and you will experience more happiness than 'love' marriage with arrange marriage. Choose someone with a good heart and if you are muslim, choose someone who is religious and your intention of choosing is because of Allah. Insyallah, you can find your partner. Also, it is also an added bonus if you have a good heart then others will choose you. Just be aware that 'love' is just hormones and more often than not, it can be due to hormonal imbalance.

[@mistermood4164]

Afiq Zulkarnain how can you know someone 100% if sexes are segregated? just because you parents choose someone for you doesnt mean you are going to be a good match. plus muslims in the west are having a harder time as their much less of them.

[@afiqzul-star8768]

Mister mood​ I exaggerated the 100%. You cannot truly know someone. If it helps, you can hope for the best and leave it to fate. Yes, but those are base of statistics. If you have a hard time, either go for arranged marriage, use a social media or convert your partner to Islam (some of my friends are doing that).

[@dawonce486]

once in middle school i went out for 5sec when we were having lunch. When i came back in a guy from my class held up my "ethnic" food in front of everyone with his dirty little fingers and talked about the "smell" and "look".

[@hyacinthbucket5062]

so true no dating allowed but you have to magically find a husband and then complain later that you're STILL not married

[@WondaGal1000]

i totally agree with the name game thing. My name is out of a Hindi dictionary and it has a beautiful meaning (It literally means Earth and I'm proud to have been named that way), but every time a Teacher's Assistant, Professor, or Teacher, or adult who doesn't know me goes through a bloody attendance sheet, they butcher my name. I can't stand it. It's so stupid. It's not that hard to pronounce correctly.

[@jaxamilius5237]

'halal hotdogs' lollll

[@sachaatiyah3632]

Hi! I am an immigrant, IVE NEVER GONE THROUGH THIS!

[@lloydwang4159]

+sacha atiyah You did it wrong..

[@chaizan9733]

@@lloydwang4159 lmao totally agreeee

[@sdasfdcq5r4wrtf91]

Go back to your country.

[@Elif-qu5ob]

@@sdasfdcq5r4wrtf91 why

[@buzztube1738]

@@sdasfdcq5r4wrtf91 Go back to Europe

[@guyfromcollege]

Sounds like a bunch of first world problems.

[@ConfuzzledTomato]

They live in first world countries lol.

[@Nathankem88]

The struggles are real

[@Randomstuffs261]

+Awesome McBadass "people can't pronounce my name" "I also hate it when people ask how they pronounce my name"... Fuck it, I might as well offend you as much as possible and call you Hamas

[@guyfromcollege]

Randomstuffs261 Yeah I kind of chuckled when he said a teacher called him Hamas.

[@munaali6998]

+Awesome McBadass Light-hearted look at universal experiences by 1st and 2nd gen immigrant kids. AJ plus does tons of vids on racism and discriminations - that are not "first world problems" either.

[@sabrecreative3486]

I can really only identify the first one. Life as an Eóin, it's actually quite funny to see what people can cook up with that pronunciation

[@LizziesKindaBeast]

My family encouraged dating white people. "Mejora la raza" means improve the race. My mom said it constantly. I was born with darker skin than the rest of my family. My mom told my brother never to marry a dark skinned girl he has to marry a light skinned girl. My mom told me that if I married someone with lighter skin than mine our kids would look better than if I married someone with dark skin. They were so pissed when I started dating a black guy. Even angrier now that I've fallen in love with him. My parents don't like black people.

[@Dayfa]

+LizziesKindaBeast But aren't you black?

[@xe7535]

That's like all Latinos in general they would get mad when I told them I was gonna marry someone darker because I wanted my kids to have color not like myself. I swear they can be so fucked up.

[@HalimaAbshir]

this video explains my life LITERALLY

[@pawelekrusnak7893]

When people say immigrants why do they always excludes European immigrants ... Poles, Ukrainians, Albanians, Slovak, Romanian..... There's millions of us... Chicago alone has 1 million Polish Immigrants and more if you consider Polish ancestry.... So confusing

[@jeffrutt5292]

@r s well half the population is not black or latino, maybe 35% is. Chicago has 5.3 million people. But 1 million Poles is a little high. Maybe a hundred thousand.

[@hyacinthbucket5062]

parents speaking VERY LOUD on the phone

[@gabbyb5918]

I have a question, my Mom's an immigrant from Canada (the french part, so I had to deal with the long-distance calls), and I'm white. Am I included in this, because almost none of these applied to me.

[@wordoflife8158]

'Mum can I sleep over at Nathan's House on Friday?' Mum: And what is wrong with this house? Don't you know you have chores on Friday?' 'Can I do them Thursday?' ... *Death stare* 'Saturday then?' *DEATH STARE*

[@MobiusMundUr]

Name pronunciation. We ask so that you _don't_ get offended! Or would you rather that we continued to say your name wrong without ever asking the correct pronunciation?

[@JaneDoe-je7nh]

Yeah I didn't get how that is supposed to be a bad thing? Especially since the guy named Abas complained about his teacher calling him by a different name right after....

[@moe9596]

+DancingPotatoe16 They dont get offended, its just irritating because to you your name is normal and easy to pronounce since you speak the language it comes from. Alongside that people often try so hard to fit in but their seemingly different name is a constant reminder of how they are different. You wouldn't find it irritating if your name was for instance John and everyone you meet day-in day-out would go "Jo-hn? is the J silent?" "Joh? Joneh?"

[@ConfuzzledTomato]

+Moe H thats such a non issue though. id be more unsettled if they didnt even bother to clarify how its pronounced and kept calling me "Joneh". ethnic names sound different ANYWAY so better make it correct and different instead of anglicised and different.

[@moe9596]

Confuzzled Tomato Might be a non-issue to you dosent mean it isnt to other people. Like I had just said the fact that people are asking isnt the issue its the fact that entire scenario is a reminder of how odd their name is to most people.

[@ConfuzzledTomato]

+Moe H odd isn't necessarily a bad thing. I have a ethnic name and it's a non-issue after first 2 days of meeting someone. these people have it so good they're literally finding excuses to be offended.

[@kirokyo]

Oh man, calling cards... Yes!

[@OkamiZone]

Why do people only take that these are non-"white"? non-"blonde", non-"blue-eyed" Swedeners? I'm white and live in Africa! USA: Super Sayins of Stereotyping.

[@gritmcnasty5592]

LOL my name is Brian in the US, but in Belgium, they pronounce Bree-ahn. That was very weird

[@SuperMario5912]

that dating part was so accurate lmao

[@elizabethnyamwange1702]

I relate to this on a spiritual level 😂

[@erinocelotl3578]

Ok I have a question... If you moved countries as a child (say 6 years old, moving from Mexico to England) and had a parent who was originally from England who you moved with, you are an immigrant right? I went to England to visit my English part of the family alot - BUT ANYWAY THAT WASN'T THE QUESTION. So I've lived in England since I was 6, and now I'm 15 so it's almost been 9 years. Am I still an immigrant? I know I'm an English citizen, but can you be a citizen and an immigrant at the same time? Just really curious...

[@DianaBukaeva]

Unfortunately, yes. You can be an immigrant no matter of your passport or language fluency. And that doesn’t change with age…

[@munaali6998]

BEST VIDEO!!! LUV U GUYS!

[@gracep2910]

1:33 LMAO I did not expect that, but so true. My mom actually told me to make a plan with my friends to outnumber and overtake a r*pist, should one burst through the window. 😂

[@chroniclesofmanliness8697]

I can relate to the name, dating and calling points :P

[@mistermood4164]

+Chronicles Of Manliness i don't need marriage, i have a VERY, VERY vivid imagination

[@chroniclesofmanliness8697]

Imagination does NOT give you a sweet, fat, juicy, plate of kebbe nayye :P JK....dnt kill me feminists...

[@sachinbhandari3506]

Especially horrible when they want u to only make friends and date someone with the same ethnicity as you. Like there weren't even one in my school so I was having a hard time having to actually hanging out with friends

[@JJ-dc9sh]

I really thought this was a buzz feed video until I realized it just now.

[@savanna77]

Im from Bulgaria so I can really realte to a few of these. Hello from Cali👍

[@emorikuhn]

it’s all fun and games until your parents are from iceland and your real last name is Þórisdóttir-Guðjónsdóttir and everytime someone tries to pronounce it, chaos ensues. Shouts out to the maybe.. one other Icelandic person reading this. And if there is anyone reading this that would like to learn icelandic or is trying to, I am so sorry and I’m with you in spirit.

[@DianaBukaeva]

Oh so true! I have a friend from Iceland and her name contains letters I can’t pronounce 😅 She asked me to call her Raga

[@brandony.1824]

LMAO The Persian was so good! (I'm biased) "I have an engineer father" So persian. LOVE IT THO!

[@blainereynolds3863]

I totally had calling cards

[@Hectico2257]

Lolz, yeah the "instant marriage" thing is so true, Even if you date first, parents just automatically think you're going to get married I guess cohabitation is not a thing at least in Latin America

[@JoJoOnYouTube]

In people's defense for mispronouncing my name, that's on my parents because they misspelled my name, I had no issue with bringing my mother's cooking, I wasn't allowed to go a sleepover even though I was invited, ironically it was from a fellow latino. My parents wanted me to date as young as 1st grade, it's my sister who wasn't allowed to date even though she's an adult. My family is down to camp we just never made the plans to do so. I had no issues calling talking to my family from out country.

[@bostongirlsandy]

I had immigrant parents from Brazil and they never let me go on sleepovers.

[@tiffanygwengo]

Yessss I try to explain this to my friends all the time but they NEVER get it

[@igot7problemsbutyougotnojams]

I used to think getting them black and white calling cards from the corner store was something everyone did lmao

[@TheNoviceOAO]

implicit(sometimes explicit) "no dating, no dating, no dating...WHEN ARE YOU GETTING MARRIED?" #lifestory lol

[@user-xj4vo8ui5d]

im watching this for class rn THE REALIEST. THING EVER LOL

[@lrpolo]

Lol that was brilliant

[@daniyalk713]

Is zahra pakistani or irani ? Could be anything lol she said inshallah and khodahafiz these are used in both countries

[@yaya5tim]

It's horrible when I type 1.5 generation or immigrant kids on KZbin search bar, none of the videos is really talking about us in a positive, fun and interactive way except this one, and this one is 7 years ago already. Where you 1.5 gen homies at?

[@mynameisSULAB]

1:48 LOL! That's so true.

[@vessela7484]

Only one of these I had was the name game. (also, my maiden name is Kavardjikova)

[@adib6318]

I'm iranian living in scotland and this is so true 😂

[@deenah61]

Adib I’m Iraqi living in England and this is so true 😂 we appear to be neighbours in both aspects

[@mersedes159]

Same

[@WielkiLewimalytygrys]

Being an immigrant and being son or a daughter of immigrants is two different things

[@SuperOhyeah12]

Holy shit i thought this was a buzzfeed video

[@isabellabamnolker4921]

When your immigrant parents think that you need grow up EXACTLY HOW THEY DID and expect you to be a full fledged adult by 16. Like ummm

[@jaky411]

Great point! I also find it ironic how they expect so much perfection/adult responsibility out of their teens but also especially if they have a teen daughter, to be socially restricted and even kept sheltered to a certain extent more than if they have a teen son.

[@Mos2551]

I remember always using 1010987 calling codes to call family back home cheaply.

[@spiffybaton1662]

I think instead of becoming buzzfeed narrating text videos will be fine

[@chaizan9733]

Halal hotdogs😂😂 omg i still remember the first day i had a halal hamburger hahhahah

[@spitzrb5376]

so true

[@aLex62297]

Free health care

[@globalcitizen952]

500yrs ago... who lived here ?

[@Samuel115s]

i'm so glad i'm second generation not first lol.

[@MeeGrrLoves]

Preach it🙌🏼😂 my lyfe

[@hailie_Selassie]

I can relate!

[@anton9004]

Aj+ is slowly becoming the Buzzfeed of News :(

[@bhcbhc]

See this is fun and harmless. It’s fine.

[@oodon3220]

Im so glad to have the last name park

[@mohamedwarsame4410]

So true .

[@narutodssunny]

They also encourage you not to have friends at school.

[@pawelrusnak1936]

when you're white and an immigrant.... Look at Chicago... All polish immigrants.. idk how being white makes me a Basic american Cool ;)

[@thegigadykid1]

Its because most immigrants tend to be minorities not white

[@radiohead6395]

totally

[@numb_but_positive]

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[@kaitlin1609]

Hoe-Itude Im weak ahahhahahahahhahahahahhaha

[@sgtcojonez]

Zhara is really pretty.

[@ig8258]

This is dumb! I'm not an immigrant kid, I'm a Hispanic kid born in America. Yet I had the same shi* happened to me. Guess what! I got over it and know I have a good life and didn't complain about my upbringing!

[@JMsoo]

I never dated a black girl lol, back in the days in Italy there were not such a thing as other black people I was the only one!

[@JamesBond-on9jf]

They all fail at being funny

[@uton3e]

my name is greta and so many teachers and people (and I mean so many) call me greeta and spell my name greata

[@hornybodhisattva]

Ur roots are not in the west so when you come to the west u gotta level up or get out

[@Luhmero]

longitude latitude hoeitu--- wait wat?

[@Artbug]

You could have at least gotten 6 people who had 6 similar experiences so it didn't null and void your title... Also, these are experiences that *MOST* kids go through.

[@seth1509]

Yeah definitely first world problems. People need to except that they're different and people will act different around you because of that. Just because someone wants to pronounce your name properly you shouldn't take that offensively, because they don't want to pronounce it improperly.

[@johnf.kennedy4650]

What the hell do these people expect???? Their names look a little difficult to pronounce.

[@drugstorecowboy7770]

welcome to my life oh god.

[@klp_user3262]

The jenny Rivera calling cards you’d get at the corner store, any Latin people relate?

[@Yolduranduran]

Or the Tigres del Norte!

[@MrTubs911]

They do not sound like immigrants. Or look like immigrants. But, they have names from there parents that where immigrants. That does not make them immigrants........

[@Mareepu]

That depends on when they came to the U.S.. I did when I was 8, and if it wasn't for my face, or name, or when people ask about my childhood or how life is at home, they would say I don't sound like an immigrant.

[@JaneDoe-je7nh]

I think they were immigrants when they were kids. They've adapted by now.

[@MrTubs911]

Jane Doe maybe so

[@OmarCastroGarcia]

I came at the age of 8. I don't have an accent in English and I'm accustomed to most American things, if not all, depending on what you define to be American. When I tell someone I wasn't born in the country, they either don't want to believe me or think I'm kidding because I don't act like the person that's fresh off the boat. And I'll get asked a lot if I'm legally here too. So yeah, even though I'm very "Americanized" I still speak Spanish fluently and I'm and immigrant.

[@MrTubs911]

***** Yes they are very Americanized. That's why they do not look like immigrates to me. If you come to America at a very young age. Growing up in American schools, and speaking English. You are not a immigrate to me.

[@JonMow]

agh,an asian lesbian,classic man...classic

[@samybaclet8683]

je préfère tk78

[@no3miiiz]

Where are the Latinos?

[@fadiazzam4691]

*Mtv and BuzzFeed have launched a successful attack!*

[@GOD2sodomyME]

lol nugugian. thats how im saying it from now on. you cant put an n by a g people. my mouth cant do that.

[@ZagrosianKurd]

Im a second generation immigrant and i dont approve this shit. So prejudice

[@djoleyt]

Who can pronounce my name? :D

[@GeedanUK]

I..I a... I am speechless :@

[@djoleyt]

PONTY PRIDD I know :D .. You have to be Yugoslavian not to be.

[@djoleyt]

***** Phonetically my name is pronounced "d͡ʑôːrd͡ʑe". Surname not even close.. but good try.

[@aMazInDud70]

+Đorđe Grabovičanović ja mogu

[@djoleyt]

aMazInDud70 A ja mislio samo ja pratim AJ od naših.. I believe you can.. :)

[@hornybodhisattva]

Ur not western what did you expect

[@ChrisRD526]

Embarrassed to be a son of immigrants.

[@pobbrock]

Trying to pronounce someone's name properly is racist apparently.

[@ve2767]

pobbrock no-one said it was racist tho

[@stevebrewer7892]

Getting free shit is another thing immigrants experience!

[@IWILLEATYOUfully]

lmao the no sleep over thing is so annoying, I hate it