Confused In America

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it as the money I lose in Las Vegas.

But still I am no big gambler. When I talk about going abroad before I went

abroad, we talked it in such a way that it seemed we would rather do

anything to stay abroad. Even the jails in America are better than the

shabby house of my home in a big yar d in Beijing. If I was a big gambler,

I would just stay undocumented and underground. Although I am 40, when I do

the pull-ups, I can still reach the standard of passing the test in

physical education class in my university. The sanitation in America is s o

good that I have never fallen ill since I came. What cannot I do with such

a strong body! And more, compared with those illegal immigrants smuggled

in, my fluent English can at least help me a lot.

In another sense, however, I am no better than those illegal immigrants,

for they are poor people who will lose nothing but their poverty. When they

fight in America, they will remain poor if they lose ...

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invest. but most are staying like this. Some of them may be rich enough to

go back every three or five years to meet old acquaintances, eat some

genuine Chinese meals and bring home some duty-free commodities to families

and relatives so that they can hear them talking: Vow, the third son of Old

Li's house is really somebody now!" In this way, they cancel from their

heart all the bitterness and loneliness that they have experienced when

struggling in a foreign land.

So is this the way of American living that I had been hoping to see? Last

Christmas, I went to stay with an old friend and had some experience of an

American festival in a Chinese way. My ...

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