i guess i'm quite young to be saying that i'm successful. because i don't feel that i've succeeded as of yet. it's like beginning a jigsaw puzzle... there are so many pieces to put together before we get a clear picture of something.
but also, i don't like comparing myself with other people, i guess i'm not quite a fighter as many would say, but i don't like putting others down to make myself feel better. additionally i don't like to do something so that i have to stick out in other people's eyes. it's true we live in a country with a majority of the ethnicity being caucasian, but we're also being out numbered with latinos, and when considering asians, they tend to first think of chinese americans because of their existence that over powers all of us. but to think china is the biggest asian country.
i mean, i'm not trying to defend or offend anyone, i have some chinese vietnamese in me, but i don't go out and say hey i'm this, this and this. i represent myself as a laotian american. and i guess i don't consider doctors, lawyers, and ceo's successful when they fail miserably in life.
if you want to be noticed, you don't have to have a degree...you just need respect. i guess a lot of laotians are fighting and focusing more towards earning a living and striving for financial stability, while the chinese and vietnamese have already gone thru these stages so they pave a great path for their children to grow up and have everthing they need not to worry about anything else but themselves and go to school for 12 years to become a doctor. or dedicate their lives to charity and so forth. everyones' lifestyle is so variant, there is possibly someone out there dedicating their life to helping the poverty and they're laotian...but they're not noticed. but really, do you do things to get recognation? i know that i do things because i want to. and i can careless if anyone does or doesn't give a hoot about what i'm doing, as longs as i'm doing it and it's bettering either my own life or someone else's.
maybe because i was born and raised here, i don't feel as much tension to want to be, or fight for my heritage to be pointed out and noticed. but it just drains me when someone does so much, and one person that is on the news and pointed out as a laotian gangster who murdered another person. this is a lot louder and noticed compared to that laotian doctor that saved more than 30 different lives.
i guess we'd get noticed in a short cut if one day a laotian runs for president... but take a look at how people are remembered... hitler-the guy who wanted to dominate the world by killing millions of innocent people. or someone like Pol Pot who everyone prays for the day he came to meet his ends because of what he's done to so many. but seriously can a laotian now go somewhere to discovery a new country? can someone laotian land on the moon? likely, but will they get as noticed, i don't think it'd make that much of a difference because they weren't the first.
being noticed, having a voice, i guess you need more than just one voice and one face... so it'd take a long long time.
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