Growing up with IMMIGRANT PARENTS 🌍🩴
Growing up with IMMIGRANT PARENTS 🌍🩴
#immigrants #african #parents
I discuss growing up with immigrant parents, Ethiopian/African immigrant parents to be specific. Asian, hispanic, and middle eastern first generation immigrant children can relate. I speed run all the immigrant parent memes and debate the pros and cons of their parenting style.
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Don't worry, your Nigerian accent is better than most of the cast of Black Panther.
he's a trauma test. if you saw a child being struck by an adult, what would you think? now imagine yourself in the child's place and the adult as your parent. does your impression change? it shouldn't. that's the test.
or, alternately, when someone you know and trust suddenly raises their shoe or hand or their bastinado above their head while looking at you, do you flinch? if yes, you may have been traumatized by being beaten by physically abusive parents.
"Your father was so romantic when he was young. you should have seen how handsome he looked buying me from my family for an unused plot of land when i was thirteen"
"m-…mom?"
Pretty good breakdown and analysis. The phrase displaced aggression comes to mind.
As a child to belizean parents, I can agree with most of these.
Also did you actually shed a tear in the beginning skit?
Ze beatingggggg🛸🛸ggg yewl receive will be Tantalizing
Your kids should not understand what you had to go through to provide a better life for them. The whole point is so they can take their better socioeconomic position for granted, is it not?
How the fake tears 😂😂😂 HOW??
it’s cool to see ppl who dont completely disregard discipline, and their parents. ive been an adult for 2 yrs now (im 19) and i specify that bcuz once u leave highschool n have these adult responsibilities ppl just stop treating you like a child. But its kinda funny cuz i look back on the things i did, that i can now do without secrecy bc im an adult and just be like😬😬💀. cuz i was bad and i understand my mom’s reaction to certain poor decisions i made. and i kinda wish i could stress this to friends or ppl; like no im not brainwashed, but i was raised with some sense and accountability no matter how much i try and ignore it.
The speed run stereotypes was so good
My white bogan Australian ass is so far from these gentle passive parent experiences I was supposed to be getting. When you said that your parents never hit you in malice I laughed because like, yeah…..I got hit out of malice. In their defence….I was basically an emotional TERRORIST. I used all, and I mean all, of my gifted adolescence to tear apart any argument they tried to make with the grace and fitness of someone who labels themselves a "sapiosexual". If you imagine your 13 year old child saying to you " um "because I said so" is not a real reason, you are being ridiculous and I want a REAL reason for your refusal" you might also understand why any of their character development immediately left the room and upper cutting a teenager seems like, honestly, the only natural response.
My white bogan Australian ass is so far from these gentle passive parent experiences I was supposed to be getting. When you said that your parents never hit you in malice I laughed because like, yeah…..I got hit out of malice. In their defence….I was basically an emotional TERRORIST. I used all, and I mean all, of my gifted adolescence to tear apart any argument they tried to make with the grace and fitness of someone who labels themselves a "sapiosexual". If you imagine your 13 year old child saying to you " um "because I said so" is not a real reason, you are being ridiculous and I want a REAL reason for your refusal" you might also understand why any of their character development immediately left the room and upper cutting a teenager seems like, honestly, the only natural response.
It's a bit triggering. Being raised in non western culture but living in a western country is a mind penetration itself. We grew up in Switzerland in a village. I remember the kids chasing my brother from school daily and slashing my dad's tires. My mother told me when I was a baby the parents of the kids told them to throw snow at her because we weren't welcome. For a long time they had that complex to never ruffle feathers with them. Stay unseen and quiet.
Pizza parties and board games are always fun. Boring people just think they hit the age of 23 and can no longer do those things.
I only have one immigrant parent (SA) and my favourite part about it is hearing all the childhood lore and shit he’s seen, also the food definitely the food
For some reason i feel so proud i guessed you were Ethiopian before you said it😅😂
Fellow child of ethiopian immigrant in N(asty) America. We out here. Loved your Cicada speech on Smartypants.
Omg, gurl you CRACK ME UP! Smart and funny! U go gurl😊
"Duck tha summons" – Lil Late Child Support ft FML BBOY NEVERLAID
Child of Brazilian parents and grew up in Camada. My parents are "white" in that they're all-European heritage, but my dad has a comparable skin tone to you. He's been stopped at the border of the US for business trips multiple times and just denied entry. My paternal line is morisco conversos, aka converted "Moores" or people of Spain descended from North Africans and Arabic peoples. My mother is a ginger.
What this means is my brothers and I are all vibrant brunettes with lighter skin but facial features that confuse some people. I was told on an acting gig where they cast me as a Turkish thug (it paid $35/h, I had to take it as I was disabled by a medical thing at the time) that I was "perfectly cast, like proper light akin urban Arabic" by a dark skin Arabic guy. I came clean out of whitish guilt.
Despite this, I'm extremely white passing to North Americans who can't tell the difference between an Italian and a German anyhow. I benefit from all the privileges you'd expect. But it also made for weird moments.
The most common one is that my parents gave us all "north american" first names instead of naming us for relatives or to sound more Latino. Mine in particular is very English and very common. My last name is Spanish but if you pronounce it with an American accent it can trick people to sound like something else. So people would find out I'm Brazilian and say "no you're not" with their full chest. I have fucking Dual Citizenship by Sharon assures me I am not Brazilian because she watched FIFA once and Brazilians soccer players didn't look like me, relief on my soul now I don't feel guilty over the Amazon. Thanks Sharon.
I dunno. After Highschool I just used a common Mediterranean nickname for my first name and pronounce my last name properly and now everyone is shocked and dismayed that I have a "White" name. I even had an ex (who was Mixed) who loudly objected to me anytime I acknowledged I was white.
Shit's weird.
I was listening in autoplay during my commute, phone in my pocket, and I had to look because I thought youtube is playing a video from a different channel because I didn't recognize your voice.
using a whole president as the cover is wild work 💀
Nailing the office siren look 😂
Gay African immigrant kids, line up here!!! 🌍🏳️🌈
You should get into ice acting
I always appreciate Dobby's thirst-trap dancing at the end of your videos.
I feel very attacked by that “I want to be an artist” moment. Like who told you my life story 😂
YESSS EVERY WEEK!!
i hav the rare immigrant parents that let me have sleep overs and dont believe in corporal punishment, but also idk that me or my siblings ever did anything that needed punishment? like idk that i was ever grounded. we all just did homework and were chill (aka nerds). my cousins love my parents bc my parents would not let any kids get hit at our house
you're my favoriiite youtuber. literally no one is like you and i hope you get big.
Ha!!
Yea, none of my family members that were raised on THE ISLAND understand that American driving laws are inforced by anyone.
My dad was Mexican and my mom was white so my mom would say Spanish words incorrectly while threatening me. For example instead of saying cuchara (spoon), she would say “If you don’t behave, I’m gonna get the coo-chah-dah”
Sheltered first born traumatized African daughters unite 🎉 bonus points if you watched them relax with your younger MALE siblings and let them do whatever they want
my moms side is Ethiopian and my dad is African American for my sisters graduation my mom made 2 different invitations with different times to trick all the Ethiopian guest to come on time 💀
Hi I'm engaging ( ╹▽╹ ) But the ruining of the credit score did unfortunately happen to me 😂 still working on it 7 yrs later
Just gonna point out that I went and got a Whole Foods salad based on another video and was therefore eating it during the "Timmy exposing himself at WF" part
so, LOL
Best parts: amazing food, I know how to cook, leaving home with skills as a pre made wife/mother (actually very useful when you move out when some people can’t even do their own laundry.), holidays back home, as an adult it’s cheaper to go there on holiday bc speak language and always know someone who’s got a spare holiday home or apartment or something in the region
Negatives: thoughts around modesty and women, but now I’m glad I wasn’t out with boys when I was younger honestly. But my mum making my 27 year old boyfriend of 6 years sleep downstairs on the sofa when we came round for Christmas despite living with eachother for 4 years is kind of ridiculous 😂
As I've gotten older I've come to understand and appreciate my mom sooooo much and just wish I could've seen it her way as a kid, I wanted to be American SO BAD and now I wish I had invested more in my own culture 🙁 but now I get to learn from her and appreciate her and can't wait to share our culture with my future kids! Thank god I at least learned and still speak the languages at the very least.
But yes I think it's hilarious how similar our experiences as immigrants are! From everywhere! I'm Brazilian but I relate to about 98% of everything you talked about in this video xD
(I don’t have immigrant parents just black american) I seriously now understand why my mom didn’t let me go to birthday parties or sleepovers!! But it’s so interesting how the beliefs of lots of immigrant parents got passed down through generation to generation. My like quadruple or quintuple greats were immigrants, and I’m so sure that their beliefs were shoved down their kids throats and ended up being thrown at me and my siblings lol. Like my grandmother legit told my eldest brother that he could only pierce one ear because two would make him gay. 😭😭
this is a half "raised by immigrants" and half "growing up poor" thing but when i was a kid my mom HATED american fast food and anything processed/came in a can. so when i started college i was Obsessed with trying all the foods i couldnt have as a kid: hot pockets, kid cuisine, chic-fil-a, etc. its all still so new to me lol
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Totally unrelated to the video, were you on dropout smarty pants?!!!
omg the "and worst of all, my art wont even be that good" of it all 😭😭😭