In this paper I will explore the effects of being an immigrant child/child of immigrants living in the United States. Being a child of an immigrant or a child immigrant itself is very hard for that child’s self-esteem. They are the easiest targets due to being in an unknown territory/situation. Majority of their childhoods they tend to feel tensions between the cultures they are immersed in at school and the cultures their families try to keep alive within their households. Being a child of immigrants or a child immigrant itself means constantly having to defend your place as an ‘American’ amongst others in society. They are more commonly to struggle with identifying themselves as a part of neither culture due to being fully from either culture. Peer-to-peer discrimination can lead to depressive symptoms, high anxiety, low self-esteem in kids, and make them likely to engage in aggressive and delinquent behavior which limits their self-control. Although they go through tremendous difficulty, research shows they tend to excel in later life and grades. Questions I will be exploring in this paper: why do the children really struggle with adapting? How do they incorporate both cultures without downplaying the other? Why is it they are more likely to succeed in life? And finally how did they ultimately overcome all the obstacles they thought would harm them? Moving from one town to another can be hard on a child as it is, but imagine moving from one country to another or one continent to another continent. This move can really devastate a child’s self-esteem. The child ultimately will be leaving everything they have ever known behind them such as friends, food, culture, and language having to migrate to the United States and be stuck within a cultural barrier. Children can already be so cruel to children of similar circumstances of themselves. Children tend to pick on the immigrant children because they are the easiest targets due to being in an unknown territory/situation. Peer-to-peer discrimination can lead to depressive symptoms, high anxiety, and low self-esteem in children. One of the major questions I come across when I observe children in general is why are they so mean? Even to the children who are the most similar to them children can be naturally mean without any premeditating thoughts towards their words or actions. Immigrant children already have enough on their plates as it is and now have to deal with American bullies. These children can go into depressive states because of the trauma of moving from their only home to being bullied for being different. Being a child of immigrants or a child immigrant itself means constantly having to defend your place as an ‘American’ amongst others in society. Immigrant children are more commonly to struggle with their identity. They struggle with both their personal identity as well as their social/cultural identity. They don’t consider themselves as a part of neither culture due to being split in between two different cultures. They can’t decide/differentiate between the cultures they were born into with the culture they are being raised around. People in society in either culture tend to push them out. They culture they were born into will shun them for “abandoning” beliefs and customs when moving, and the American culture simply shun them because they are different or they can find their views, beliefs, customs, and culture as offensive or a threat to American customs and culture. When I see these actions going on I always seem to question the American motto. America is supposed to be the land of the free and open to all cultures and ethnic backgrounds, so why is it that Americans always feel “threatened” by another culture’s beliefs and customs?