@@TKUA11 if that political call your girlfriend like trump do. yes, you can be with him in some things but that part of trumps ,that when your girl is multicultural ..its another things
People who make fun of people with broken languages forget that the person who’s speaking a second language or third or fourth even if it’s broken it’s still smarter than you, the monolingual human😭
Ikr i actually think it's cute when people get all their languages confused. Like imagine being able to do that. I really need to learn my home language 😔.
@Honk Honkler more like the language of oppression by establishing systemic racism in countries of people of colour so yeah all y'all have is their wealth stolen on the basis of melanin produced in their bodies remember that illiterate colonizer
I am fluent in three languages; the two official ones of my country and my mum’s native tongue. My accent for one of the languages is kind of bad but people seem to like it haha
WHY do profs feel so entitled to students with multicultural experiences ?? the amount of times profs have been talking about a culture/ethnicity/race/etc and just called students of that background out ??? academia can be so 🤮
lucy clark good lord you are so correct. Whenever we talk about immigration and internment camps they point me out but like bitch she wasn’t here for internment. (For reference I am a 1/4 Asian in a VERY white school)
@@lilylemon2225 oh my gosh I live in a place where it is mostly white people including myself, however I have lots of native American in me so I have olive dark skin, very dark hair, and dark eyes. I was always asked if I was Mexican just because I was a "darker" white
So fun story: One time I was late, again, to German class when I was 14 or something and so I was like 'oh I'm sorry I'm late, it won't happen again' so that I wouldn't have to go and get a card which would lead to detention after two times I believe. To my surprise, the teacher said 'so where did you come from?' and I was like 'oh just from home', then she said 'Oh no I mean like where are you from again? Irak or Iran right? - mind you, this was at the start of the class while it was silent and I stood there, in front of the class with her asking me these questions while EVERYONE was listening - I don't quite remember how that conversation ended but I believe I just said something like 'oh ... No my mom is from Russia and my dad from Afghanistan' to which she responded with 'oh yeah yeah thAt was it!' Lmao like chill.. woman. XD
BRUHHHHH! I am jewish and the amount of times I got asked about my family's history in the holocaust. Bitch wtf no I do not wanna talk about how my family died. I am also heavily russian and because of certain laws I am an italian citizen as well as american (basically my family was close enough in descent to the ones who were born in italy that I was able to become a citizen). Anyway, I got asked wayyyyy too many times about if my family was communist.
My parents are also immigrants, and they’re from Mexico, so I’m Hispanic. Fun little story: One day, my social studies teacher called me over to her desk. I though I got in trouble for something, until she handed me a book. The book was about Mexican history. She told me, “Here, you should learn more about your culture”. She also wanted me to share it with the only other Hispanic guy in my class who’s parents is a family friend, but I’ve barely spoken to him. I don’t know how to explain how I felt when she handed me the book. It was just really awkward, because everyone was looking at me after she gave it to me.
My mom is also a Mexican immigrant. I'm extremely pale tho because my dad is white and don't "look Mexican." Sometimes it makes me feel like I'm appropriating my own culture if that makes sense lmao.
I grew up Colombian-American, my mom from the US my dad from Colombia. I moved to a white middle class neighborhood and immediately I felt out of place. I was spoken to by TEACHERS in inappropriate ways and I was made to translate for other kids (they had no Spanish translator) and they still had the audacity to also tell me not to speak Spanish in classrooms. I lost my Spanish language over time not because I didn’t have contact with my Colombian family but because where I lived and went to school didn’t allow me to be my identity. I was constantly embarrassed having to explain to people I wasn’t adopted, my nickname was short for a long Spanish name no one could pronounce, my last name was real, and having to defend myself when people learned my name and called me “well-spoken and smart”. What the actual FUCK. So when my white friends insist I’m white I don’t disagree but I also don’t think they know being white and feeling very whitewashed into it and having to denounce my Hispanic/Latinx heritage is violence and they helped perpetuate that. On the box for race/ethnicity I almost literally never bother or I choose “other”. I’m sick of my white “socially progressive” friends sticking me into a box of white American when that ISN’T my experience. Thank you for sharing your experiences, Nicole. It’s important we speak with others and provide an environment where we can communicate and relate. This video is so important to me and many others. We are amazing people and I’m so glad you’re using your platform in the ways you have 💖
i’m also colombian american, but my mom is colombian and i relate completely.... i lost my spanish because i grew up around primarily white people, and for a long time growing up i would disregard the fact that i was part colombian because i had so many white friends and i wanted to fit in, and i could pass as white. now i am proud of it and am trying to re-learn spanish again. i feel like growing up the way i did “whitewashed” me a lot and drew me away from that culture and i wish it didn’t
So im a first generation mexican-american and can i say: i relate to that soo much. I am a light skinned latinx so i get confused for being white. Which has always been confusing for me because coming from such a culturally different family that has such an angst in attitude towards white people for what they have done to us and our ancestors, its hurtful to be confused for our oppressors. Though, when i was younger, and primarily knew spanish, i was also the main translator for teachers, students, and parents. Its weird, i wanted to translate because it felt like i was being recognized for being a latinx in those moments. The only time i was useful i suppose. Through out elementary school teachers would tell me not to speak spanish. Kids would hear me speak spanish and tell the teacher on me bc they feared i was talking about them. I eventually lost my spanish. My spanish now is mediocre, but i do need it to communicate with my family so i cant lose it too much. My parents came here long before i was concepted, so by the time i was born both of my parents were fairly fluent in english. I felt quite seperated from my culture and my family, being the lightest one (im fully ethnically mexican/half european/half native american, my dad is just really light in skin tone) of my family, being mediocre at spanish and being re-labeled by e v e r y person i met was the most confusing thing ever. I tried to hold onto my curls bc it felt like a feature that could identify me as latin or just not as white as i seem, but ya know my hair said no. Even other mexicans tell me im not mexican. I dont even know how white people label me. I used to be definitely set apart from them, but now i feel like i fit in more but im not certain i like it. I do get having to write your parents emails/texts but my mom had me do it bc she was more confident in my english than hers. My parents never really cooked any cultural food. The closest i got was quesadillas and my tia’s food. Tho now im vegan so now im further distanced. I just feel like i fell between the cracks somewhere.
szpaqus yeah i did. when i was younger i could speak pretty fluently, but she worked a lot and since my dad and everyone we were around spoke english, i guess she stopped trying to speak spanish around us as much
well if you live in an english speaking country & you know you’ll stay there and your job doesn’t require you to know another language, then is there really a point? learning a language is really hard and boring so why force yourself, just so your memory is better
As a Polish-American, I wasn’t surprised to learn you are too when I saw all plants and the firanki in your room. Staples in mine and my extended family’s homes. Also have been told that I’m “not white but European” because the cultures are so different
yup, that's exactly how my grandparents met each other, they danced the whole night together, then my grandma went home to the other side of Poland, but they stayed in touch and kept writing letters and bam, got married like a year later (and they saw each other like twice in the meantime)
That's not true.. they hate UK or any other people that doesn't look like them... wich still I dont get is where is their family from. Like trump ancestry is from where.
솔 I can see where you are coming from, but I slightly disagree. To them, pure Americans are perfect. However, there is a huge difference between how they treat europeans(especially western europeans) and anyone who doesn't como from Europe. They see europeans as equal, they might not like them, but they are in some way equal. But when it comes especially to Latin America or Africa, people from these continents are seen as subversive, they are not equal, but less than americans.
Omg, when you said that you have a link in bio about what is happening in Poland, I almost screamed!!! So so important! Love you even more for that!!!!! Sending kisses from Katowice, Poland 💕
I am literally in the middle of a 2 week long email exchange with a younger sibling's teacher posing as my mom. She asked to speak to me (my mom) on the phone to discuss the issue more easily, and I had to call her and give her an excuse saying "Oh hey my mom cant come to the phone bec of family reasons, don't want u to feel snubbed but Im aware of the situation so talk to me" lmao pls help I think she knew but im still signing the emails as my mom LMAO
as a son of of Sudanese immigrants, I can definitely relate to this video, especially with the prejudice that people can have against me being Arab, not to mention the racism I already deal with while black.
its strange to see someone with a very similar background to mine (im half polish and half egyptian/mena) but with such opposite experiences. i identify more with my egyptian side, and i prefer to identify as biracial. my whole life i was always told im too pale to be biracial, but since i have super curly hair, am muslim and am constantly surrounded by arab culture, i never felt as white as people were telling me i was. its something i still struggle with today, but it helps a lot to see the representation of people that are like me, even in small ways. thank you for that nicole!! 💖
same same same, (im half austrian half turkish and identify more with turkish culture) i have had so many experiences with people telling me that i'm white but never truly feeling that way!
sameee i'm half iraqi and half polish/english/romainian/ukrainian and i also don't feel white?? like whenever i have to answer the race question on job applications i'm just like......idk i guess ill choose white but i don't feel white white? O,o
As a German-English/Polish person I really relate. I always automatically identified as Polish but with time I really struggled with it... Because I do not live in Poland I feel "fake" and distanced from the culture that I adore so much. Thing is I do not feel connected to the country we are living in and also dont feel connected to the english side because well, just like your dad mine left as well and I learned english in school so that also contributed to my doubts of identifying as english. So I just want to thank you for your video because it really showed me that this feeling is normal and that I cna get past this, DZIĘKUJĘ!
I’m Ukrainian and English so I can relate. Feeling like I’m not Ukrainian because I don’t live there, whilst simultaneously identifying more with my Ukrainian side. It’s so confusing!
The FASFA ohhh myy goodness! I remember I damn near cried filling that ish out my parents were all like “yo no se tu eres la que va a la escuela” (i don’t know you’re the one that goes to school). BUT hey I can happily say that I graduated college and FASFA paid for that ish BB!!! Also, I just noticed I was being gross and didn’t have my bell notifications on. I’m not gross anymore though 😉
I love your content, and most notably your music recommendations. Every time you've recommended a song I've added it to my 'remarkable - all time' playlist which is a playlist of my favorite songs of all fucking time. Keep them coming.
This video almost made me cry, I never thought people would understand or relate this much but knowing that I live on the other side of the world and still relate just made me feel so comforted
Oh yes this might be my favorite video from you! My parents are immigrants from Ghana and (similarly to you) I always felt (and still kinda feel) ostracized from the black people whose families have been here since the beginnings of this country. I think having immigrant parents who still hold on to their culture at home, while being a first-gen American is such a cool and nuanced experience that I wish more people talked about! Thank you for making this video, I hope more people make similar videos in the future
I-- ME TOO!!! My parents are from Nigeria and I feel the same way! Idk how to explain it but it feels like I'm not "black enough" here but I'm not "African enough" in Nigeria either :/
My parents are from West Africa as well. I grew up in a mostly black school. When my classmates found out, I got bullied because my parents weren't from the US. It doesn't make sense because as a black person, your ancestry tracks back to Africa...so why bully me just because I'm part African when you're part African too?
I can 1000% relate to most of this. My dad is a pakistani immigrant and my mom is irish-american. My mom has blonde hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. And I have olive skin, and dark eyes and hair. Growing up I always felt like this oddball who couldn't be assimilated into American culture because of how my family looked like, and our home life looked like. It has been very confusing, and difficult to navigate to say the least. But I am 22 now, and I am very proud of my heritage and what is has taught me! So cool you made a video like this!
My parents are not immigrants but I wanted to say that it’s really cool to hear about your experience! I bet you are a role model to so many people who can also relate to you in having these experiences, and that’s so awesome!
I went to a summer camp thing in the states and someone asked me where I was from and I said I was from the Philippines and the girl said “oh that’s so exotic” and I really wanted to say “yeah that’s what your ancestors thought when they colonized us”
I've never thought about it in such a way. Well, I'm not an immigrants child, and yet it is so easy for me to judge other half Polish people's identity (that are like Polish American or sth). Bc i haven't experienced it, it's so easy for me to judge. I had the same with Fifty na Pół (Kasia Mecinski, she is a ytber) and i had this gut feeling that something is off bc of her struggles with identity. But your video helped me out so much with understanding what such people might experience. Thank you, it'll help me be less judgemental and more understanding.
I really related when she talked about most of her friends growing up having immigrant parents. I’m Irish American and lots of my friends growing up we’re first or second generation Irish, and although we have assimilated into American culture it was an amazing outlet for celebrating and accepting our identities. Much love from Chicago 💕
my grandma is Polish and French-Canadian, my grandfather is Russian, my mom is Filipino. :') 100% relate to struggling with identity. Never "white" enough or "Asian" enough. Growing up and going to my white friends houses when I was a kid, was completely different from mine. They always pointed out that I was half Asian. One girl told me my eyes were weirdly shaped because I was half Filipino. Other Asian kids would say Filipinos don't count as Asian, Other Filipino kids said I didn't understand what it was like because I was lighter than them. A lot of my closest friends ended up also being multiracial because they understood what it was like to be pushed out and not be accepted in our cultures community. Always felt conflicted when it came to my culture and identity, so nice to hear your story talking about it.
Me: Turkish- Indonesian *goes to turkey* Turkish relatives: she doesn’t even look Turkish, I bet she can’t even make Turkish coffee.. disgrace. Indonesian relatives: she looks so Turkish and not even Indonesian.. I- what the FUCK AM I!!??!! 😩😩
yes, yes, yes! ok i have never related more to your experience with having immigrant parents and figuring out your identity and understanding and appreciating your culture
I’m first generation Czech and Slovak and I relate to the whole “don’t sit on the concrete or you’ll get a bladder infection” thing and the “don’t go outside with wet hair or you’ll catch the flu” i’m laughing so hard😂😂😂😂 glad it’s not just my parents!!
totally relate to both! Parents immigrated and I’m serbian and still to this day I dry my hair fully don’t know how these people go outside in the Canadian winter with damp or wet hair 🥶
omg yes, my dad is Croatian and when I visit my grandparents on his side they always tell me my kidneys will get infected or sick if I leave my back exposed and I will die hahaha
I literally don't understand why america discriminates for where your parents are born like It makes 0 sence for me like, you are a kid born in america and with an american culture but you are expected to know the culture of your parents like ???? Why????
i love how you’re so open to us for all of this. my family does have roots from irish and scottish people, but most of my family was born and raised in america and i really wanna learn more and more about different cultures because sometimes i feel guilty about being white because i can’t relate to some people and i’m being the odd one bc i’m white ig?? i don’t really understand why i feel this way, but i do. i don’t wanna seem ungrateful for who i am but i would like to learn more ab diff cultures because i think it’s really important.
I just found your channel last week and this video is by far the one that has brought me so much inner peace. I have been recently struggling with cultural identity, as I grew up very Mexican (both my parents immigrated from Mexico) and never fit in with the American culture here (and still don’t fit in). I grew up with most children of immigrants as friends but then went to a high school with a white majority and like zero Hispanic/Latinx students. I felt like people could always point me out and I have been feeling that for so long even now in college, and I have reached my breaking point so that’s where I am right now. I want to stop feeling like I don’t belong anywhere or simply accept that I don’t have to belong, as you can see I am still torn on what to feel. I don’t completely relate to most Mexican ideals because of how progressive I grew up here in America, and so my parents don’t understand how to guide me or what I am even feeling. I recently purchased “You Sound Like a White Girl” by Julissa Arce and I recommend that book to try and help anyone feeling the same way I am feeling. I hope anyone reading this that somewhat relates feels like they aren’t alone in any identity crises they might be having
I absolutely loved this video!! I'm also Polish, both of my parents were born in Poland and I was born in America! I related to this video so much, especially with the part about your parents' meeting at the disco because so did mine!
as an egyptian, i lived my whole life in egypt, but i went to a french speaking school and a bunch of my friends and most of my teachers were french so i grew up with conflicting values, around both arab and western culture, but personally i feel it just gave me so much exposure. this is something that i'm super proud of and have always loved and truly feel is unique. here's to being multicultural!!
It’s so awesome that you shared this video. My great grandparents were Polish immigrants. As I learned about their experiences growing up, I always thought about how if they never came here for more opportunity and did all of the hard work before the rest of us, my family wouldn’t have the life we have today! I’m blessed my grandfather passed on so many Polish traditions from them and made it such an important part of my life. So cool to hear from someone like you who’s grown up with a Polish immigrant mother!! She sounds like such a strong woman as are you :)
my parents immigrated to the uk from brazil, when you mentioned ‘you’re not white you’re polish’ identity crisis i could really relate to that. i am white but the way i was brought up and my culture is extremely different to british culture
I really really love hearing about how people grow up! It's so amazing how some experiences as so different for everyone but at the same time there are things that happen in so many families!
I’ve never met another half Asian half Cuban before besides my brothers and me I’m half Indian and half Cuban. I’ve never gotten exotic though because everyone thinks I’m Dominican
i like how she's straightforward and blunt like it's literally such a great sense of style or expression and i just love it, because you can vibe really well.
Thank you for making this video. I found it comforting to hear your story, even if my situation isn't exactly the same as yours. It's good to know the confusion I have about my own identity is not "just me."
that is exactly what i need right now. i‘m a serbian living in switzerland and since corona i‘m thinking about these things a lot. it‘s great to hear these things from a different person even though we have two completely different lives it seams like it‘s the same love u
I have immigrant parents but I’m also an immigrant myself. I was born in Poland and lived there for 11 years of my life before we moved to the UK, so basically I grew up with one culture and then was forced to adapt to a new one. I could never truly relate to people who had immigrant parents but moved to an English-speaking country when they were very little. To them England was perfectly normal, they didn’t have a problem with adapting to society and basically accepted every new rule that was given to them without ever questioning it. My English wasn’t very good for the first few years of my life in England and because of that my self-esteem decreased massively. Fortunately, I never had trouble in school. In fact, I was at the top in many of my classes at the end of high school. I’m 17 now and in a much better place but I would still love to meet someone who had a similar experience to mine.
I was 13 when I moved to Ireland, and I can relate to the low self-esteem thing. I had 0 English skills, couldn’t talk or wrote or understand it was horrible. So for the first 3 years of secondary school (high school) I didn’t have any friends it was so bad 🙈
Honestly this hit home!!!! I felt/related to what she said and i’m still trying to accept my identity even though i’m just 17. I’m just glad to hear someone else has felt this way. Thanks♥️
thank you for talking about this. i am just stumbling across your channel now and i love it. i was born in portugal but my mom is canadian and thus i don’t look very portuguese but i was raised in a very portuguese environment. i just related to this all too much. the fafsa thing hit so different. i’m the first to go to school in america and it’s true, i do just feel so lost in both that process and the process of finding my cultural identity.
I wish I was polylingual an grew up with more diversity. I’m African American, Native American, and a plethora of European nationalities. People only see me as an African American, but I want to appreciate all of what I am.
I’m getting married in 2 months and my fiancé is Croatian and polish. His dads family is polish and my married last name will be Cebula which is onion in polish. My fiancé family are immigrants and it is fascinating to learn about other cultures.
Thankyou so much for making this video, I’m Chinese, kiwi, Australian and I can relate so much... you legit helped me so much with this we need more of these 🙏🏼
This was so interesting to watch! I could relate to certain things that you mentioned, like translating paperwork and my parents watching TV from both their countries! I’m half American, half British but was born and raised in Belgium, I always stood out in school because there were only a handful of students at my school that had immigrant parents. I used to feel embarrassed that my parents couldn’t speak Flemish fluently (one of the official languages in Belgium) but now I don’t anymore, I’m proud of my heritage, it makes me unique.
quirky little story: uh so i recently took ap world history and my teacher would always ask the “cultured” kids about our “native” country, as if we’re supposed to know despite being born and raised in the us? idk but it was kinda off putting and it made a lot of us uncomfortable
Loved this video! I had no idea you were Polish-Iranian and it was super cool hearing more about Polish traditions. I'm actually learning a lot about immigration/race in one of my classes and it's cool to hear about a second-generation American experience first-hand. I'd love to see more videos on your culture/customs - thanks for sharing Nicole!
this video is over a month old BUT as a polish American woman it took me the majority of my 18 years to embrace my polish side and when you mentioned smigus-dyngus and paczki I gotta admit I got so happy that I knew what you were talking about. As always luv u Nicole.
I relate so much to this!! I'm half Lebanese, and I'm surrounded by Lebanese culture every day, but I'm very white and also half European so I never felt like I fit in with the other Middle Eastern kids I knew in school. Thanks for making this video, it made me feel really seen and heard :))
Reppin it for the Iranian girls. I’m a mixed Persian girl too and I really identify w this video 💚💚 There’s actually a sociological term for this experience called “third culture kid”, it’s interesting to read about
its funny i literally had the reverse experience, i grew up with my dad who wasn't an immigrant and never got to learn tagalog from my filipino mom so i always felt like i wasn't filipino. i did the same thing where u would fill in the white bubble on those ethnicity surveys and i regret it so much because at my filipinx graduation they didn't say my name cuz apparently i wasn't registered filipno in my school district.
The more videos you post the more I realize you’re like me 😄My parents came here for us to have a better future and I couldn’t be more grateful for what they did❤️I definitely did have some struggles from time to time but I’m glad u made this video because it helped me understand more about how other kids from immigrant parents felt while growing up.
"your fifth grade girlfriend, you're betraying her" our dude mr. Adam WOULD NEVER
he really would never
@@TKUA11 but it's not logical💛
@@TKUA11 if that political call your girlfriend like trump do. yes, you can be with him in some things but that part of trumps ,that when your girl is multicultural ..its another things
People who make fun of people with broken languages forget that the person who’s speaking a second language or third or fourth even if it’s broken it’s still smarter than you, the monolingual human😭
Ikr i actually think it's cute when people get all their languages confused. Like imagine being able to do that. I really need to learn my home language 😔.
@Honk Honkler more like the language of oppression by establishing systemic racism in countries of people of colour so yeah all y'all have is their wealth stolen on the basis of melanin produced in their bodies remember that illiterate colonizer
I am fluent in three languages; the two official ones of my country and my mum’s native tongue. My accent for one of the languages is kind of bad but people seem to like it haha
the one dislike is DEFINITELY that 5th grade boyfriend
how many 5th grade boyfriends did she have lol
Jameson Sewell just one, however he has 27 accounts.
and the other 30 is his family, friends and all of his girlfriends that hes cheating on
@@elveravoloshina24 they should disown you
@@elveravoloshina24 lol im pretty sure trump is against immigrants but you do you
WHY do profs feel so entitled to students with multicultural experiences ?? the amount of times profs have been talking about a culture/ethnicity/race/etc and just called students of that background out ??? academia can be so 🤮
lucy clark good lord you are so correct. Whenever we talk about immigration and internment camps they point me out but like bitch she wasn’t here for internment. (For reference I am a 1/4 Asian in a VERY white school)
@@lilylemon2225 oh my gosh I live in a place where it is mostly white people including myself, however I have lots of native American in me so I have olive dark skin, very dark hair, and dark eyes. I was always asked if I was Mexican just because I was a "darker" white
Right! It's so embarrassing! I'm trying to keep a low profile!
So fun story:
One time I was late, again, to German class when I was 14 or something and so I was like 'oh I'm sorry I'm late, it won't happen again' so that I wouldn't have to go and get a card which would lead to detention after two times I believe. To my surprise, the teacher said 'so where did you come from?' and I was like 'oh just from home', then she said 'Oh no I mean like where are you from again? Irak or Iran right? - mind you, this was at the start of the class while it was silent and I stood there, in front of the class with her asking me these questions while EVERYONE was listening - I don't quite remember how that conversation ended but I believe I just said something like 'oh ... No my mom is from Russia and my dad from Afghanistan' to which she responded with 'oh yeah yeah thAt was it!'
Lmao like chill.. woman. XD
BRUHHHHH! I am jewish and the amount of times I got asked about my family's history in the holocaust. Bitch wtf no I do not wanna talk about how my family died. I am also heavily russian and because of certain laws I am an italian citizen as well as american (basically my family was close enough in descent to the ones who were born in italy that I was able to become a citizen). Anyway, I got asked wayyyyy too many times about if my family was communist.
can we just address how freaking pretty nicole is like omg 💛 ily!
Thank you so much 🥺
Nicole Rafiee 🥰
She's gorgeous
@@islamicdemocratpedophile4073 yet you still had time to comment 😆😆😆😆
Nicole Rafiee It’s true! 💖
Omg I forgot that Claudia is Polish-American too
Tiffany! 💜💜💜
"Identity should be taught more in school" THIS! I revoke my previous comment about standards in 5th grade.
My parents are also immigrants, and they’re from Mexico, so I’m Hispanic.
Fun little story: One day, my social studies teacher called me over to her desk. I though I got in trouble for something, until she handed me a book. The book was about Mexican history. She told me, “Here, you should learn more about your culture”. She also wanted me to share it with the only other Hispanic guy in my class who’s parents is a family friend, but I’ve barely spoken to him. I don’t know how to explain how I felt when she handed me the book. It was just really awkward, because everyone was looking at me after she gave it to me.
Hello fellow Mexican
My mom is also a Mexican immigrant. I'm extremely pale tho because my dad is white and don't "look Mexican." Sometimes it makes me feel like I'm appropriating my own culture if that makes sense lmao.
audrey hobson Im pretty pale too. I was always confused for Philipino and Chinese!
My brother’s girlfriend is Vietnamese. She said that he looks so Asian that he could pass off as one of her family members.
@@theguyintheback4714 Someone said I looked Jewish haha
Shoutout to being ambiguously ethnic and inappropriately called “exotic” 🙋🏻♀️ Edit: thanks for the likes!
and then you call them out for being offensive and they tell you to take a compliment 😌✌🏽
My brother interviewed for a private high school and the guy called him a “spicy mix”
yuuuuuup
Maya Koorapaty terrible
I’m Native American and I was talking to a Mexican boy he called me exotic....boy how you gonna say that when we’re both brown lmfao
I grew up Colombian-American, my mom from the US my dad from Colombia. I moved to a white middle class neighborhood and immediately I felt out of place. I was spoken to by TEACHERS in inappropriate ways and I was made to translate for other kids (they had no Spanish translator) and they still had the audacity to also tell me not to speak Spanish in classrooms. I lost my Spanish language over time not because I didn’t have contact with my Colombian family but because where I lived and went to school didn’t allow me to be my identity. I was constantly embarrassed having to explain to people I wasn’t adopted, my nickname was short for a long Spanish name no one could pronounce, my last name was real, and having to defend myself when people learned my name and called me “well-spoken and smart”. What the actual FUCK. So when my white friends insist I’m white I don’t disagree but I also don’t think they know being white and feeling very whitewashed into it and having to denounce my Hispanic/Latinx heritage is violence and they helped perpetuate that. On the box for race/ethnicity I almost literally never bother or I choose “other”. I’m sick of my white “socially progressive” friends sticking me into a box of white American when that ISN’T my experience. Thank you for sharing your experiences, Nicole. It’s important we speak with others and provide an environment where we can communicate and relate. This video is so important to me and many others. We are amazing people and I’m so glad you’re using your platform in the ways you have 💖
i’m also colombian american, but my mom is colombian and i relate completely.... i lost my spanish because i grew up around primarily white people, and for a long time growing up i would disregard the fact that i was part colombian because i had so many white friends and i wanted to fit in, and i could pass as white. now i am proud of it and am trying to re-learn spanish again. i feel like growing up the way i did “whitewashed” me a lot and drew me away from that culture and i wish it didn’t
@@HannahNicoleO_O What about your mom? You didn't speak spanish with her?
So im a first generation mexican-american and can i say: i relate to that soo much. I am a light skinned latinx so i get confused for being white. Which has always been confusing for me because coming from such a culturally different family that has such an angst in attitude towards white people for what they have done to us and our ancestors, its hurtful to be confused for our oppressors. Though, when i was younger, and primarily knew spanish, i was also the main translator for teachers, students, and parents. Its weird, i wanted to translate because it felt like i was being recognized for being a latinx in those moments. The only time i was useful i suppose. Through out elementary school teachers would tell me not to speak spanish. Kids would hear me speak spanish and tell the teacher on me bc they feared i was talking about them. I eventually lost my spanish. My spanish now is mediocre, but i do need it to communicate with my family so i cant lose it too much. My parents came here long before i was concepted, so by the time i was born both of my parents were fairly fluent in english. I felt quite seperated from my culture and my family, being the lightest one (im fully ethnically mexican/half european/half native american, my dad is just really light in skin tone) of my family, being mediocre at spanish and being re-labeled by e v e r y person i met was the most confusing thing ever. I tried to hold onto my curls bc it felt like a feature that could identify me as latin or just not as white as i seem, but ya know my hair said no. Even other mexicans tell me im not mexican. I dont even know how white people label me. I used to be definitely set apart from them, but now i feel like i fit in more but im not certain i like it. I do get having to write your parents emails/texts but my mom had me do it bc she was more confident in my english than hers. My parents never really cooked any cultural food. The closest i got was quesadillas and my tia’s food. Tho now im vegan so now im further distanced. I just feel like i fell between the cracks somewhere.
Man my english really sucks here 😔. I promise my english isn’t usually that bad
szpaqus yeah i did. when i was younger i could speak pretty fluently, but she worked a lot and since my dad and everyone we were around spoke english, i guess she stopped trying to speak spanish around us as much
"Iran was in shambles, Poland was in shambles" I relate.
@@user-one8707 I'm guessing they're also in shambles
my family immigrated mainly in the early 1900s but also from the late 1930s from russia. I can relate.
I'm polish too :') too bad I didn't get any cheekbones tho
Yes you did girl! They’re there and super cute
NOOOO WAY GIRL, I've been watching your for forever and didn't know this! Twinsies, except I am the immigrant in the equation haha
Lindsey, do you speak polish as well?
same girl, same
sammeeee i got nothing 😀
i very recently realised that some ppl only speak 1 language. i feel bad for those ppl. LEARN A LANGUAGE BECAUSE IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR MEMORY
Indian gang represent!! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
My dad is Cuban but he never taught us Spanish so I took college classes and I'm trying to teach myself lol.
@@addyrovirosa1800 lol im in the same boat. My father is Peruvian and mother is American. Im finally learning Spanish now!
well if you live in an english speaking country & you know you’ll stay there and your job doesn’t require you to know another language, then is there really a point? learning a language is really hard and boring so why force yourself, just so your memory is better
you really called me out 😔
i used to be embarrassed about my parents being immigrants. i’m only just starting to love and embrace my culture, thanks for the vid !
YES being our parents’ personal translator and doing most of the paperwork HAHA this is so relatable
‘No no, mum, that’s not how you spell it. Give me your phone I’ll do it’
my dad lived in england 10 years before i was born so he was already super fluent after i was born thank god
i will never get tired of listening to how people grew up. thank you for sharing!!!
As a Polish-American, I wasn’t surprised to learn you are too when I saw all plants and the firanki in your room. Staples in mine and my extended family’s homes. Also have been told that I’m “not white but European” because the cultures are so different
I'm Bulgarian-American and yes I felt this
I’m argentinian but my old relatives came from Spain, France and Italy, and I proudly speak three languages
That’s really awesome!! What a flex haha
wow!
4 counting English or do you only speak 2 of these 🙈. VERY IMPRESSIVE either way.
Same I’m from Argentina and I’m German and Syrian. I speak German, English and Spanish, my Arabic is so bad 💀.
I also speak 3 languages 🙌🏼
Meeting your significant other on a disco is probably one of the most polish things XDDDDD
yup, that's exactly how my grandparents met each other, they danced the whole night together, then my grandma went home to the other side of Poland, but they stayed in touch and kept writing letters and bam, got married like a year later (and they saw each other like twice in the meantime)
That'd how my parents met too😂
(I'm Latvian but ya know)
Santa O that’s how my mexican parents met too 😂
I live in Poland (I'm American tho) and everyone is always telling me I need to go to a disco to get a boyfriend bc I'm single lol
Yupp, my parents met on a disco/techno party in FrankfurtXD
Funny how “go back to your country” in america only applies to people who aren’t from europe
That's not true.. they hate UK or any other people that doesn't look like them... wich still I dont get is where is their family from. Like trump ancestry is from where.
솔 I can see where you are coming from, but I slightly disagree. To them, pure Americans are perfect. However, there is a huge difference between how they treat europeans(especially western europeans) and anyone who doesn't como from Europe. They see europeans as equal, they might not like them, but they are in some way equal. But when it comes especially to Latin America or Africa, people from these continents are seen as subversive, they are not equal, but less than americans.
@@solfh UK isn't Europe.
dyapalyse it kind of is... it's just not in the European Union, but it belongs to the continent Europe
@@sofiamartins7537 true
Omg, when you said that you have a link in bio about what is happening in Poland, I almost screamed!!! So so important! Love you even more for that!!!!! Sending kisses from Katowice, Poland 💕
"I looked him up on facebook right before I filmed this video, and it is confirmed, he is still miserable" I screamed
SENDING TEXTS AS YOUR MOM IS A UNIVERSAL THING AAAAAAA
I am literally in the middle of a 2 week long email exchange with a younger sibling's teacher posing as my mom. She asked to speak to me (my mom) on the phone to discuss the issue more easily, and I had to call her and give her an excuse saying "Oh hey my mom cant come to the phone bec of family reasons, don't want u to feel snubbed but Im aware of the situation so talk to me" lmao pls help I think she knew but im still signing the emails as my mom LMAO
as a son of of Sudanese immigrants, I can definitely relate to this video, especially with the prejudice that people can have against me being Arab, not to mention the racism I already deal with while black.
Ayyy East African gang. I would love to go to Sudan one day
damn I feel sorry for you, black and of Sudanese descent in America can't be easy
I hope it gets better for you, prayers from a Nubian 🙈
my mother makes fun of the way i speak bangla, i make fun of how she speaks english, it's a 2 way street 🤩😌
For real 😳 for real. I do the same
@J zednanref i found it on pinterest, i have no idea!! i searched brown/indian anime girl lmao
@wallflower aye bangla gang!
@J zednanref it's a character from the anime yuri on ice
Ayy I wanna join in on the Bangla gang
Guys remember that ONLY Nicole has immigrant parents, quit trying to be like her geez 😔✋🏼
This made me cackle 😂
You’re someone I look up to for how open and honest you are. You genuinely seem like such a lovely person and so dang funny 🧡
its strange to see someone with a very similar background to mine (im half polish and half egyptian/mena) but with such opposite experiences. i identify more with my egyptian side, and i prefer to identify as biracial. my whole life i was always told im too pale to be biracial, but since i have super curly hair, am muslim and am constantly surrounded by arab culture, i never felt as white as people were telling me i was. its something i still struggle with today, but it helps a lot to see the representation of people that are like me, even in small ways. thank you for that nicole!! 💖
i'm half polish half egyptian too :o
ouu that's actually so cool
same same same, (im half austrian half turkish and identify more with turkish culture) i have had so many experiences with people telling me that i'm white but never truly feeling that way!
sameee i'm half iraqi and half polish/english/romainian/ukrainian and i also don't feel white?? like whenever i have to answer the race question on job applications i'm just like......idk i guess ill choose white but i don't feel white white? O,o
You’re literally my favorite UA-camr! My grandma came to America when she was only 18 🥺
As a German-English/Polish person I really relate. I always automatically identified as Polish but with time I really struggled with it... Because I do not live in Poland I feel "fake" and distanced from the culture that I adore so much. Thing is I do not feel connected to the country we are living in and also dont feel connected to the english side because well, just like your dad mine left as well and I learned english in school so that also contributed to my doubts of identifying as english. So I just want to thank you for your video because it really showed me that this feeling is normal and that I cna get past this, DZIĘKUJĘ!
I‘m German-Polish too so I live in Germany but both my parents were born and raised in Poland and this video was really relatable😂
I’m Ukrainian and English so I can relate. Feeling like I’m not Ukrainian because I don’t live there, whilst simultaneously identifying more with my Ukrainian side. It’s so confusing!
The FASFA ohhh myy goodness! I remember I damn near cried filling that ish out my parents were all like “yo no se tu eres la que va a la escuela” (i don’t know you’re the one that goes to school). BUT hey I can happily say that I graduated college and FASFA paid for that ish BB!!!
Also, I just noticed I was being gross and didn’t have my bell notifications on. I’m not gross anymore though 😉
ur personality, the editing, the video concept, everything about your videos~*chef’s kiss*
OMG HAHASNDDNDNDB OMG SHE HEARTED MY COMMENT AGAINNN OMG A LEGEND
I love your content, and most notably your music recommendations. Every time you've recommended a song I've added it to my 'remarkable - all time' playlist which is a playlist of my favorite songs of all fucking time. Keep them coming.
this outfit is one necklace away from that dwayne johnson outfit
also ily more than i love myself just sayin
This video almost made me cry, I never thought people would understand or relate this much but knowing that I live on the other side of the world and still relate just made me feel so comforted
I'm mixed egyptian, black and italian and was raised in england, I related so much to some of the things you've said, thank u
we love a turtle neck-naked knees looks!
Oh yes this might be my favorite video from you! My parents are immigrants from Ghana and (similarly to you) I always felt (and still kinda feel) ostracized from the black people whose families have been here since the beginnings of this country. I think having immigrant parents who still hold on to their culture at home, while being a first-gen American is such a cool and nuanced experience that I wish more people talked about! Thank you for making this video, I hope more people make similar videos in the future
I-- ME TOO!!! My parents are from Nigeria and I feel the same way! Idk how to explain it but it feels like I'm not "black enough" here but I'm not "African enough" in Nigeria either :/
@@Seramoonn Oh my goodness I totally agree! It's like we have this weird "hybrid" culture that our parents or ADOS can't relate to! West African Gang
My parents are from West Africa as well. I grew up in a mostly black school. When my classmates found out, I got bullied because my parents weren't from the US. It doesn't make sense because as a black person, your ancestry tracks back to Africa...so why bully me just because I'm part African when you're part African too?
Ohhh My dad is from Ghana and my mom is from Zimbabwe but I was born in England . So the struggle is real .
Dude you're an icon! And watching this video made me realize how cool it is knowing 2 or more languages without even having to learn them
I can 1000% relate to most of this. My dad is a pakistani immigrant and my mom is irish-american. My mom has blonde hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. And I have olive skin, and dark eyes and hair. Growing up I always felt like this oddball who couldn't be assimilated into American culture because of how my family looked like, and our home life looked like. It has been very confusing, and difficult to navigate to say the least. But I am 22 now, and I am very proud of my heritage and what is has taught me! So cool you made a video like this!
Get it Nicole, call out that 5th grade boyfriend.
I'm the daughter of two serbian refugees so hearing about this makes me happy
I’ve never clicked so fast as a Persian Turkish daughter to immigrant parents
SAME as an Turkish American daughter to immigrant parents :) identity struggles r PRESENT
@AhiskaTurk ethnically im half austrian half turkish but I only speak Turkish not Austrian (i was born in america) sorry if that was confusing lmao
@AhiskaTurk i usually just say turkish american bc i identify more with my turkish side :)
@AhiskaTurk im not muslim lol, my immediate family (except for my turkish grandparents) are all atheists :)
My parents are not immigrants but I wanted to say that it’s really cool to hear about your experience! I bet you are a role model to so many people who can also relate to you in having these experiences, and that’s so awesome!
I'm half Russian-Ukranian and half Iranian and ohh, I can relate to the identity crisis thing so much😅
Ahhhh I’m half Ukrainian and half Mexican! I always wish I learned how to speak Ukrainian 🥺 such a gorgeous language
I went to a summer camp thing in the states and someone asked me where I was from and I said I was from the Philippines and the girl said “oh that’s so exotic” and I really wanted to say “yeah that’s what your ancestors thought when they colonized us”
Uhhhhh👀👀👀 Next time I am gonna say it too
U SHOULDVE!! I TAKE EVERY CHANCE I GET!!!!! when im feeling bold
I've never thought about it in such a way. Well, I'm not an immigrants child, and yet it is so easy for me to judge other half Polish people's identity (that are like Polish American or sth). Bc i haven't experienced it, it's so easy for me to judge. I had the same with Fifty na Pół (Kasia Mecinski, she is a ytber) and i had this gut feeling that something is off bc of her struggles with identity. But your video helped me out so much with understanding what such people might experience. Thank you, it'll help me be less judgemental and more understanding.
this made me cry cause it hit a lil close to home
I really related when she talked about most of her friends growing up having immigrant parents. I’m Irish American and lots of my friends growing up we’re first or second generation Irish, and although we have assimilated into American culture it was an amazing outlet for celebrating and accepting our identities. Much love from Chicago 💕
my grandma is Polish and French-Canadian, my grandfather is Russian, my mom is Filipino. :') 100% relate to struggling with identity. Never "white" enough or "Asian" enough. Growing up and going to my white friends houses when I was a kid, was completely different from mine. They always pointed out that I was half Asian. One girl told me my eyes were weirdly shaped because I was half Filipino. Other Asian kids would say Filipinos don't count as Asian, Other Filipino kids said I didn't understand what it was like because I was lighter than them. A lot of my closest friends ended up also being multiracial because they understood what it was like to be pushed out and not be accepted in our cultures community.
Always felt conflicted when it came to my culture and identity, so nice to hear your story talking about it.
Me: Turkish- Indonesian
*goes to turkey*
Turkish relatives: she doesn’t even look Turkish, I bet she can’t even make Turkish coffee.. disgrace.
Indonesian relatives: she looks so Turkish and not even Indonesian..
I- what the FUCK AM I!!??!! 😩😩
yes, yes, yes! ok i have never related more to your experience with having immigrant parents and figuring out your identity and understanding and appreciating your culture
I’m first generation Czech and Slovak and I relate to the whole “don’t sit on the concrete or you’ll get a bladder infection” thing and the “don’t go outside with wet hair or you’ll catch the flu” i’m laughing so hard😂😂😂😂 glad it’s not just my parents!!
Moldovan and same!
totally relate to both! Parents immigrated and I’m serbian and still to this day I dry my hair fully don’t know how these people go outside in the Canadian winter with damp or wet hair 🥶
ISTG the amount of time I heard it living in Poland is crazy
the hair and concrete thing is so European,especially slavic countries
cant sit on the ground before thunder
yes lmao
omg yes, my dad is Croatian and when I visit my grandparents on his side they always tell me my kidneys will get infected or sick if I leave my back exposed and I will die hahaha
If there is a breeze in the house, you're doomed.
Omg be careful from promaja or else you might be paralized 😂
i’ve been waiting for this one
Nicole, thank you for making this!!
I literally don't understand why america discriminates for where your parents are born like It makes 0 sence for me like, you are a kid born in america and with an american culture but you are expected to know the culture of your parents like ???? Why????
This is the same country that doesn't call native-born Americans by what they are, native.
aaa this is so beautiful! I'm Polish-Nepali and I'm studying Farsi so I was so SURPRISED to see this video
"Exotic"...like...Tiger King? LOL
i love how you’re so open to us for all of this. my family does have roots from irish and scottish people, but most of my family was born and raised in america and i really wanna learn more and more about different cultures because sometimes i feel guilty about being white because i can’t relate to some people and i’m being the odd one bc i’m white ig?? i don’t really understand why i feel this way, but i do. i don’t wanna seem ungrateful for who i am but i would like to learn more ab diff cultures because i think it’s really important.
Nicole: Poland has a whole holiday completely dedicated to dumping water on poeple.
Me who lives in Slovakia: Wait, thats just easter.
In Poland it's always the day after easter, i don't know how it is in Slovakia :)
I just found your channel last week and this video is by far the one that has brought me so much inner peace. I have been recently struggling with cultural identity, as I grew up very Mexican (both my parents immigrated from Mexico) and never fit in with the American culture here (and still don’t fit in). I grew up with most children of immigrants as friends but then went to a high school with a white majority and like zero Hispanic/Latinx students. I felt like people could always point me out and I have been feeling that for so long even now in college, and I have reached my breaking point so that’s where I am right now. I want to stop feeling like I don’t belong anywhere or simply accept that I don’t have to belong, as you can see I am still torn on what to feel. I don’t completely relate to most Mexican ideals because of how progressive I grew up here in America, and so my parents don’t understand how to guide me or what I am even feeling. I recently purchased “You Sound Like a White Girl” by Julissa Arce and I recommend that book to try and help anyone feeling the same way I am feeling. I hope anyone reading this that somewhat relates feels like they aren’t alone in any identity crises they might be having
It was hard growing up with immigrant parents, seeing how they worked so hard over the years to help me is inspiring!!
I absolutely loved this video!! I'm also Polish, both of my parents were born in Poland and I was born in America! I related to this video so much, especially with the part about your parents' meeting at the disco because so did mine!
as an egyptian, i lived my whole life in egypt, but i went to a french speaking school and a bunch of my friends and most of my teachers were french so i grew up with conflicting values, around both arab and western culture, but personally i feel it just gave me so much exposure. this is something that i'm super proud of and have always loved and truly feel is unique. here's to being multicultural!!
It’s so awesome that you shared this video. My great grandparents were Polish immigrants. As I learned about their experiences growing up, I always thought about how if they never came here for more opportunity and did all of the hard work before the rest of us, my family wouldn’t have the life we have today! I’m blessed my grandfather passed on so many Polish traditions from them and made it such an important part of my life. So cool to hear from someone like you who’s grown up with a Polish immigrant mother!! She sounds like such a strong woman as are you :)
my parents immigrated to the uk from brazil, when you mentioned ‘you’re not white you’re polish’ identity crisis i could really relate to that. i am white but the way i was brought up and my culture is extremely different to british culture
I really really love hearing about how people grow up! It's so amazing how some experiences as so different for everyone but at the same time there are things that happen in so many families!
I’m half chinese and half cuban, and people LOVE to call me “exotic” when they find out lol
I'm half Cuban and Irish/Native American. But I just look white so people are surprised when I tell them.
@@addyrovirosa1800 I can relate
i’m half el salvadoran and half japanese so i DEFINITELY feel that lol i hate it here
thats not bad thing tho
I’ve never met another half Asian half Cuban before besides my brothers and me I’m half Indian and half Cuban. I’ve never gotten exotic though because everyone thinks I’m Dominican
i like how she's straightforward and blunt like it's literally such a great sense of style or expression and i just love it, because you can vibe really well.
i’m mexican, black, filipino AND white... that childhood identity crisis was so confusing!!!!
i'm mexican and filipino too!!!!! yes the childhood identity crisis is sometimes still ongoing....!!
Thank you for making this video. I found it comforting to hear your story, even if my situation isn't exactly the same as yours. It's good to know the confusion I have about my own identity is not "just me."
I’m Mexican-American. I was nodding my head so hard in agreement when you talked about that rule of not being able to go outside with wet hair.
that is exactly what i need right now. i‘m a serbian living in switzerland and since corona i‘m thinking about these things a lot. it‘s great to hear these things from a different person even though we have two completely different lives it seams like it‘s the same love u
I have immigrant parents but I’m also an immigrant myself. I was born in Poland and lived there for 11 years of my life before we moved to the UK, so basically I grew up with one culture and then was forced to adapt to a new one. I could never truly relate to people who had immigrant parents but moved to an English-speaking country when they were very little. To them England was perfectly normal, they didn’t have a problem with adapting to society and basically accepted every new rule that was given to them without ever questioning it. My English wasn’t very good for the first few years of my life in England and because of that my self-esteem decreased massively. Fortunately, I never had trouble in school. In fact, I was at the top in many of my classes at the end of high school. I’m 17 now and in a much better place but I would still love to meet someone who had a similar experience to mine.
I was 13 when I moved to Ireland, and I can relate to the low self-esteem thing. I had 0 English skills, couldn’t talk or wrote or understand it was horrible. So for the first 3 years of secondary school (high school) I didn’t have any friends it was so bad 🙈
Honestly this hit home!!!! I felt/related to what she said and i’m still trying to accept my identity even though i’m just 17. I’m just glad to hear someone else has felt this way. Thanks♥️
The people who complain when someone has an accent while they only speak one language are trrrrrrash
thank you for talking about this. i am just stumbling across your channel now and i love it. i was born in portugal but my mom is canadian and thus i don’t look very portuguese but i was raised in a very portuguese environment. i just related to this all too much. the fafsa thing hit so different. i’m the first to go to school in america and it’s true, i do just feel so lost in both that process and the process of finding my cultural identity.
i love your videos! you actually inspired me to start my own channel this summer so thank you! 💛
Im in love with the background in this video. couldn't stop appreciating it.
I wish I was polylingual an grew up with more diversity. I’m African American, Native American, and a plethora of European nationalities. People only see me as an African American, but I want to appreciate all of what I am.
Man you are probably the first person I relate to in this! I never hear about half-Polish experiences in western countries THANK YOU
I’m getting married in 2 months and my fiancé is Croatian and polish. His dads family is polish and my married last name will be Cebula which is onion in polish. My fiancé family are immigrants and it is fascinating to learn about other cultures.
Thankyou so much for making this video, I’m Chinese, kiwi, Australian and I can relate so much... you legit helped me so much with this we need more of these 🙏🏼
omg I thought it was just a Mexican thing that they didn’t let you outside with wet hair 😭😂 I love that 😂
LMAO
My russian mum says it too. Also, if i sit on the floor apparently I’ll become “infertile”
This was so interesting to watch! I could relate to certain things that you mentioned, like translating paperwork and my parents watching TV from both their countries! I’m half American, half British but was born and raised in Belgium, I always stood out in school because there were only a handful of students at my school that had immigrant parents. I used to feel embarrassed that my parents couldn’t speak Flemish fluently (one of the official languages in Belgium) but now I don’t anymore, I’m proud of my heritage, it makes me unique.
quirky little story: uh so i recently took ap world history and my teacher would always ask the “cultured” kids about our “native” country, as if we’re supposed to know despite being born and raised in the us? idk but it was kinda off putting and it made a lot of us uncomfortable
Loved this video! I had no idea you were Polish-Iranian and it was super cool hearing more about Polish traditions. I'm actually learning a lot about immigration/race in one of my classes and it's cool to hear about a second-generation American experience first-hand. I'd love to see more videos on your culture/customs - thanks for sharing Nicole!
"I can't go outside with wet hair or else I will probably die" O.O I can relate on a spiritual level
this video is over a month old BUT as a polish American woman it took me the majority of my 18 years to embrace my polish side and when you mentioned smigus-dyngus and paczki I gotta admit I got so happy that I knew what you were talking about. As always luv u Nicole.
OMG you cannot go outside with your wet hair. I can relate to that so much. 😂😂 Or you can’t open windows if they’ll create a draft! 😂
I relate to this so much! Thank you for making this video. I wish more influencers talked openly about this subject❤️
Nicole talked about Dustin, so can I consider this a interaction between my two favorite UA-camrs?
I relate so much to this!! I'm half Lebanese, and I'm surrounded by Lebanese culture every day, but I'm very white and also half European so I never felt like I fit in with the other Middle Eastern kids I knew in school. Thanks for making this video, it made me feel really seen and heard :))
Reppin it for the Iranian girls. I’m a mixed Persian girl too and I really identify w this video 💚💚
There’s actually a sociological term for this experience called “third culture kid”, it’s interesting to read about
YES A FELLOW PERSIAN! My mother is Iranian and I relate so much to this... thank you for sharing this on your platform.
I didn’t realise that not being allowed to go outside with wet hair or stand/sit on cold surfaces was such a universal experience.
wow dude i had no idea you were half polish! it’s so cool, piąteczka ✋🏼✋🏼
its funny i literally had the reverse experience, i grew up with my dad who wasn't an immigrant and never got to learn tagalog from my filipino mom so i always felt like i wasn't filipino. i did the same thing where u would fill in the white bubble on those ethnicity surveys and i regret it so much because at my filipinx graduation they didn't say my name cuz apparently i wasn't registered filipno in my school district.
My dad is a Cuban refugee but he never taught me Spanish so I feel like I'm not connected to that side of my heritage and I'm trying to teach myself.
The more videos you post the more I realize you’re like me 😄My parents came here for us to have a better future and I couldn’t be more grateful for what they did❤️I definitely did have some struggles from time to time but I’m glad u made this video because it helped me understand more about how other kids from immigrant parents felt while growing up.