My success in immigrating to the U.S is based on just the opposite of you.
I have excellent language skills. Thus I could immerse and adapt quickly into the local life and I don't have cultural barriers because I was an outlier in China.
I never fully adapted to the customs in China as a young adult. So when I came here there was no problem shedding the past influences.
I mean if I had moved to Russia I'd turn into a Russian as well because of my superb language skills. I could be discerned as a local person no different from the others in a couple of years. There are a lot of indigenous people from the Far East part of Russia. Some of them move to Moscow to work but all speak perfect Russian. I could speak some basic Russian and read well. It's just a matter of time that I could speak fluently. Just imagine if I have chosen a different path to emigrate to Russia or Ukraine! Life could be totally different but equally amazing.
Before I came to the U.S I already spoke perfect English, only lack of the colloquial part. I went to college, worked different jobs, married, divorced and joined the military. Then I married again, had multiple children and settled on American life for good. There's never any doubt that I would be part of this world, and not the other world 8000 miles away. I don't have a technology background, but I have a determination to emigrate and immigrate. I wanted to be free of Chinese people and Chinese life. I wanted to be free of my parents and relatives too. Their embrace is suffocating to me. I don't want to be the only child anymore. And I made it to the ends with little means.