As we live in United State, united states have always been known for welcoming immigrant. When immigrant come to the U.S they have a dream to get better education and being successful, but as they go to school many people has hard time learning English language, because they were exposed to their native language since childhood. They get bullied by student in school because they are different and has no English which simultaneously push immigrants to end their life. According to Sophie “immigrant youth may be easy target for bullying since they may look, dress, and talk differently than native born adolescents and they have relatively low social standing”. One of my friend sharing her story that she faced of being language barrier as immigrant. Everyone says that Asian are smart at math. It was her freshman year and she was in my math class. Teacher presented us with an equation problem to solve. She knew the answer of the problem so she raised her hand and shout out the answer, but none of the classmates neither teacher understand what she was saying. Fortunately, one of her friend who speak same her language understand her accent in that class so, she translated to teacher what she meant to say. After that incidence, she was very embarrassed to participate in class activity due to the fear that she does not want to make joke out of herself in front of …show more content…
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