My Life After The United States - 969 Words

My life was split between two distinct cultures during my childhood and adolescence. My family immigrated to the United States in the early eighties and moved back to Syria two years after I was born. I completed first and second grade in Syrian public schools before immigrating to the U.S. in 2001. Here, I was placed in English second language classes, which I completed in 9 months. I then continued my fourth grade education in regular classrooms. These two years exposed me to people of various cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds, which cultivated my cultural awareness and shaped my identity. However, I was harassed several times because of my religion and ethnicity. A student once told me â€Å"go back to your country, we don’t want you here.† It had never occurred to me that I was perceived as a foreigner despite being a U.S. citizen. In late 2003, when I was ten years old, my family and I moved back to Damascus, Syria. 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