The American Value demystified - a view from immigrants

When it comes to the immigrants, many 'Americans' may have the impression that people immigrated to the United States for the reason of the material life, which may not be totally wrong. However, that simple believe may have overlooked other attractions United States has.

In general, the Asian immigrants may have given Americans the impression that they are not fitting into the American culture very well and it may also seems that they are living in their own social circles. It may also give the impressions that they are distanced from the 'American values'.

From the surface, part of these is due to the language barriers. For many Asian immigrants, their native languages do not related to the Western Language families, and this not only presented the problems in the accent but also in the way phrases are constructed. A possible exception can be the Indian since some of them have read and wrote in English before they come to the United States.

One of the misimpression American may have about the Asian immigrants is the value of democracy, which, sometimes, may have mistaken with the patriotism. The 'American White' sometimes have the doubts about Asian immigrants patriotism, which, in my view, many times are close to the racism. As we all know there are as many 'White' immigrants in the United States too. But as far as I can tell, 'American White' have not raised the same questions about their patriotism or their Democracy believe. One of the manifest of this is the treatment of the Japanese during the World War II in the United States.

Personally, I have also encountered events while working in a whole white office here in the United States. I was assumed to not well acquainted with the 'Western' democracy and may not be patriot as should be. An event was held in the Office to go through the patriotism and the democracy. As an foreigner, of course, I do not recite the 'pledge' well.

I can't speak for other Asian immigrants. However, looking back at the event, many times, I said to myself, I don't know if they really know the Democracy or the Patriotism better than I do. My believe in Democracy stem from my reading of what happened in the Mainland China and my understanding of the Patriotism developed through the constant name calling in China/Taiwan's political environment.

Democracy is to know what can happen without Democracy while the Patriotism is not the recitation of the the 'pledge' but the believe of Democracy, which is bigger than the Patriotism.

With the 2020 United States' presidential election fraud, I have evident my believe one more time. Ms. Hima Kolanagireddy's testimony in the Michigan hearing resonant with me for a longest time. The love of the country has nothing to do with her race and has nothing to do with where she come from. But has everything to do with how she embraced the Democracy value of the United States. The patriotism is stem from the love of the Democracy value.

Today, the news on the EpochTimes.com, once again, confirmed my believe (My apology that link is in Chinese but you can copy and paste into Google translation if you like to read it yourself). Basically, a bunch of Asian/Chinese come out on the street to support Mr. Trump. The reason these Asian/ Chinese came out have nothing to do with their love for Mr. Trump, but because they love the Democracy and they see the fraud election could destroyed the Democracy they loved. Many of these men and women were not activists and, for many, this is the first time they speak out.

As I speak out many times, I am not a Trump supporter. But, on this one, I am totally with him. I hope once this is over, Mr. Trump will look back and understand that immigrants, legal or not, with adequate education, are all the supporters of the Democracy and the patriotism of the United States. On the other hand, just being White have nothing to do with the embrace of Democracy. Also just look at the media that would faithfully report all these event - the EpochTimes.com, and the New Tang Dynasty Television. They are not our traditional American Media. But they stand up.

United States is a great county with good resources. With good education and moral values, our citizen should be highly competitive and would not be afraid of competition in the jobs market.

Good material life maybe what we think is our attraction. But, don't forget the Democracy, which many immigrants are craving for.