Personal Narrative: First Generation Chinese Immigrants

It was not until I spent winter break in China, meeting extended family, that I was able to choose my topic. I am the first person in my entire family to be born in the United States of America. As a first generation Chinese American I have always struggled with my dual identity, never really wanting to know much about my heritage, fully immersed in growing up American.
Over the last couple years I have been trying to reconnect with by biological identity. Conveniently, the trip I took to China came at the same time of President Trump’s inauguration. Being out of the country during that time was really helpful for me to gain perspective, after being quite disappointed in the election results. In retrospect it seems appropriate that I was questioning my identity as an American while, the definition of what it means to be an American was a large part of the political debate. Obviously immigration is a huge topic that the current President claims to be one of his
With all this in mind, not to mention the threats of walls being erected, and muslim bans being thrown around, I have formed my own political beliefs on the immigration policy in the United States based on many factors. However, I often wonder whether or not my identity as a young first generation Chinese American affect those beliefs. Therefore I am interested in the relationship between the proximity people from different nations have with their heritage, and their opinions on America’s immigration policy. So, in conducting this survey, I wanted to get insight into individual’s general opinions on America’s immigration policy based on where their family originated from, how large their family was, how many generations their family had been in America, how many languages they were fluent in, whether or not they had been to the country their family originated from, and how much they considered their heritage to be important to their