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You two sound a little young and perhaps you don't understand or aren't willing to understand things from your parent's perspective. Immigrants -never- come to the US because they want to 'be American'. They want the opportunity and freedom that isn't available wherever they originally came from. That doesn't mean they want to, or should have to adopt our culture. They want our higher standards of living, not our way of life. As a matter of fact, it's completely un-American to think that they should. This country was founded on the concept of tolerance. They've lived lives much harder than yours, you should learn to respect the fact that they gave you an opportunity for a better one.

Now you might think, that cuts both ways because they aren't being tolerant of you. Well, not really, they don't consider themselves American, and they don't consider you American. They are probably ashamed of your self-hatred. Whether or not you like it or believe it, you will always stand in the shadow of your family's culture because of your physical appearance. It doesn't matter if you were born-and-raised American and don't speak a lick of any language except English.

The simple fact is, the majority of this country is not a cultural melting-pot. If you find yourselves in middle-America where it's 99.9% white, you're probably in for some culture shock. Most of this country doesn't know or doesn't accept the fact that this country was stolen from Native Americans, and no white person is a real American. The sad truth of that is, you will have to learn to put up with that ignorance.