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I need something like that in my life. A lot of them can be somewhat reactionary and sometimes a little right wing. Not always completely but I think sometimes it can get weird.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We can start one. πŸ˜‰ I was a former citizen of PRC, now a US citizen. Where are you from?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USA, AZ.

If I may ask, why did you flee?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lol I didn't "flee", my parents have a relative in the US that filed a petition for family based immigration. One of the major reasons was because of economic issues which was exacerbated by the Hukou system, which means My parents and I were essentially treated like immigrants within our own country. We were from a rural village, and even though my parents were able to save up for an apartment in the city and got a job, they still weren't considered an actual resident. No free public school for kids, no any sort of benefits from the city. They had to pay for me to go to a private school which had worse education than the public ones (even though the "patriotic education" element of it was essentially on the same intensity). So when I was around age 7 and second grade in China, the immigration petition got approved and we got immigration visas, family of four, Father, Mother, Older Brother, and me. Oh did I mention I was the second born during the One-Child Policy, yea my parents bribed a government official to turn a blind eye about her second pregnancy. She eventually had to be sterilized after my birth so the government can ensure she doesn't give birth to a third child.

So anyways, after a connection flight in Seoul, we arrived in JFK Airport. So here we are, in the US, and got naturalized a little more than 5 years after arrival.

Did you know how long the visa petition wait list was? More than 13 years! That's longer than the time I've been here! (I've been here about 12 years approaching 13 years.) The immigration petition was filed before I was even born!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She eventually had to be sterilized after my birth so the government can ensure she doesn’t give birth to a third child.

This sounds really messed up, among everything

Yeah China and India got some very long backlog because of the 7% per country policy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the bright side, I'm still alive. I guess killing someone that has already been born is harder to justify than killing me while I was still a fetus.

But you know what the worst thing was? She STILL BELIEVES IN CCP PROPAGANDA! So does my dad. I'm like y'all have no hope. Too far gone. Everytime they paise the CCP I'm just like "Oh so you think they should've killed me?". At least now whenever someone spews CCP propaganda, I'll just say "You know, the CCP tried to kill me..."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well, that means CCP propoganda works as intended...