Attitudes on Chinese Immgrete to America

Attitudes about personal interest and career choices are influenced by a personЎ®s culture and age. Ў°I want to be a pilot.Ў± Ў°I want to a lawyer.Ў± Younger generations always decide their interest and what they want to do as their career based on their own benefit. Observing from the past in the U.S., very limited opportunity is offered to the Chinese immigrants. They might consider if they can do it, in stead of if they want to do it or not. Regardless of what education level they possessed most of the Chinese immigrant work as a waiter, waitress or some low paid jobs. However, the Chinese immigrantsЎЇ position in U.S. community is changing these years. Chinese immigrants are being appreciable in the U.S. community. As the changes, there were so many conflicts between younger and older generation who are Chinese immigrants after viewing on career choices and personal interest. I am interested in this topic and I have interviewed two people of different generation who both earned a bachelor degree in the U.S. Except generation differences, they have got similar background. I am going to learn more about how different generations view personal interest and career choices.

Vincent Kwan, an accountant in California, is a Chinese immigrant who moved to the U.S. with his family since 1971. Sandy Wong, currently a college student in Santa Monica College, immigrated to U.S. with her family since 1995. And her future goal is to be a politician in U.S. I have learned a lot about Chinese immigrantsЎЇ views career choices and personal interest. As the position of Chinese and the generation changed, they have different views with these two issues. They were all talkative and willing to share their personal feeling with me.

First, Vincent and Sandy have similar views with personal interest. Nowadays, technology and equity is promoted in the world, especially in U.S. Him and Sandy agree that the status of Chinese become greater in America. Vincent grew up in a typical Chinese family, he wish to be a pilot when he was small. However he has banned this idea. The main reasons are because he didnЎЇt have any chances to approach planes and his parents didnЎЇt give him any support on this issue. Ў°The most important factor of deciding career is the salary. It is because it will help you to achieve a satisfactory life.Ў± Vincent said. He agrees that using personal interest to decide career is important, but salary is crucial. The second reason which made him feel personal interest in not as important as income is because he is an immigrant. As an immigrant in the U.S., he claimed that finding a job is hard, but putting personal interest into consideration is even harder. However, Sandy has a similar view on this issue. She thinks that the most important thing of choosing career is to decide if it is interesting or not. She believes that she can be whatever she wants to be in America, a society which maintains equal opportunities. She works by herself, although her parents did not give her much support on receiving higher education and being a politician. Moreover, Sandy will choose working condition as another important criterion of choosing career, which Vincent didnЎЇt concern about it at all.

On the other hand, they have different views on career choices. Vincent thinks that parents have the rights to decide their childЎЇs career. The reason is because parents have