American culture is a really, challenging and you know, that, as being a child in America and you want to keep your original culture because that's the expectation for your parents. So you have to do something called balancing. The expectation for our parents, they want to keep our original culture. They want to live the way they live. They want to act the way they act, which is as American child, it's hard, because you're not in that environment because the environment change people. So, you want to blend in where you're at and the country you're in, and you need to understand the since you speak the language, then you will pick up the culture. So what I do is something called balancing. So I do both cultures right now. --Deka Ali / mother & cultural navigator from East Grand Forks, Minnesota
