Do we really have home country? Or do we really want one?...

Somebody is curious about why looks like even black people stay at higher social hierarchies in the United States than Chinese does.

Though generally deemed uneducated, which is not necessarily true, most of the black people I know are polite, friendly, straight forward, and optimistic. No matter where their ancestors came from, they treat this country as their homeland, they are proud of it; some of them are still struggling to improve their life.

As for our Chinese, so far we’ve achieved a lot from financial perspective, especially for those who came here to pursue their higher education. Most of us found great jobs with decent pay after graduation, a lot of families bought big houses even most Americans can’t afford, we send our kids to private schools, now and then we hear somebody’s children are accepted by Ivy League schools with full scholarships, statistic shows that the average income of Chinese families is much higher than those of most races, we can make this list longer and longer, but enough.

The interesting thing is that the United States is an immigrant country, why the immigrants, literally speaking, from China are still treated as foreigners? At least some of us feel like that way. Don’t we do enough to erase the traces that will uncover our identities? We go to church for mass although some of us schedule it for sociality, we try to get rid of that embarrassing accent because we really don’t like what Russell Peters said about Chinese in his talk show, we put money on expensive tickets of baseball and American football in order to have common topics with our white friends, we host parties inviting our neighbors and colleagues, we pay 15%-20% tips for just so so services, we stay away from our people for Americanization (I learned this word from Kua Guo Hun Yin, the original one there is Americanized. I checked the dictionary to make sure I use the right word.), we criticize our people’s ugly habits to differentiate ourselves from those from that uncivilized country, and most important, we vote. What should we do further except changing our faces to be accepted by mainstream? Is it fair?

Unfortunately, my personal opinion, most Chinese here are opportunists. I am just telling what I thought but blaming anybody. Do we really have the concept of homeland in our mind instead of just a place to live? Further more, do we really think we need one? Did we really ever think about doing something to make our country, not necessarily China here, or just our communities better places in this world? We make our backyards beautiful garden full of flowers and vegetables, but how many of us donate our used books or toys to the schools? We go to church to hear the voice from God, but how many of us volunteer to provide our help to people who need it? Everybody had his own reasons to leave China for US. Now think about it, what are the relationships now between China and us except some of us still have their parents or relatives in that country? Except somebody’s passport still shows his nationality is China? From the comments of some people who went back to China for their annual vacation, I feel they were talking about a foreign country they made a first visit. That’s perfect fine, but the thing is, how many of them really treat, or will treat, US as their home country? The balance between how much you should love this country and how much this country should love you is always debatable. Some people said, “I ever loved China very much but how much she loved me back?” Sounds reasonable. Now the fact is that the United States gives most of us more opportunities than we deserve, so don’t ask more.

(Inside some Jewish people, the desire to rebuild their home country is even much stronger than that of making money. )

From talking with local people, I believe a lot of Americans have reasons to blame that this country treats them unfair, but still, they love it. We call this stupidity.

A guy’s grandfather was killed by Japanese in the war. When he planned to buy a new car, his wife suggested not choosing Japan cars. This guy said, “don’t be silly, we only choose what is good for us.” He is really a nice guy in my eyes, an opportunist as well.

I realize if I write in Chinese, inevitably the style tends to be sardonic, I don’t want to put it that way.