Many Asians Americans are now looking at opportunities abroad, citing better job opportunities, the desire to experience life in Asia and anti-Asian racism in the U.S. - NBCAsianAmerica
Some say Covid-19 mismanagement, racism, jobs for recent grads and more make life in some Asian countries seem appealing.June 12, 2021, 8:30 AM UTCAfter Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, KEFF, a Taiwanese American artist, started thinking he might never be perceived as “American enough,” despite his U.S. passport, living in the country for nearly two decades and English being his first language.
For Clara Park, a rising junior at Yale University, the pandemic and the switch to virtual learning spurred her decision to take a gap year and move to South Korea.“I hated online classes when I was taking them in the spring,” Park said.But her responsibilities extend beyond her job. As the only person in her immediate family in Korea, she has the added duty to “act as a representative” at extended family gatherings, such as birthdays or traditional grave visitations.
So Hsu watched the pandemic progress while working a job as an events coordinator for a hotel in Kaohsiung. Melody Chen is a student taking a gap year to enroll in engineering classes in Chinese and apply for Taiwanese citizenship. In addition to avoiding Covid-19 and wanting to improve her Chinese, she wanted to experience life in Taiwan for a couple months to see if it was somewhere she’d “want to consider living in the future.”“I just feel so disillusioned with the idea of America,” Chen said. “People can go bankrupt with a medical bill — that does not feel like an American dream.
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