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Coming to America: Escaping Poverty and Reinventing Myself
When the speaker graduated college, their main goal was to lift their parents out of poverty and support their brother's education./nThe speaker believed that working in India would not allow them to make enough money in a short period of time to achieve this goal./nThe speaker saw America as the fastest way to improve their family's economic situation and came to America solely for economic reasons./nUpon arriving in America, the speaker discovered the opportunity for personal reinvention and transformation./nIn America, what matters is creating value in the ecosystem, rather than one's background or language skills./nThe speaker felt that America was their rightful place and never considered leaving or pursuing other paths./nThe speaker had to overcome the fear of returning to poverty, which took a long time.