Persistence in pursuing a dream is essential, even when faced with life-threatening obstacles during migration.

“when your dream is so big when you have something it's hard to give up you know like you get to the point that you um you're capable of risking more for Just a Dream which is something that a normal person would not understand”

The struggle and work ethic developed during challenging early life experiences as an immigrant are integral to personal success and drive.

“I think that anyone who's been through real struggle um you don't that's not something you forget you know i i came here with a single father uh we didn't have anything you know he worked two jobs i remember him working out popeyes we went school shopping at goodwill that was normal for us and my da”

The hard work ethic observed in immigrant parents serves as a significant source of fuel and drive for their children's own professional ambitions.

“To see that and what we have today, my family like just in it blows my mind and it gives me this like feeling of like if they did all of that for us, I have to do that 10x harder. It gives me this like fuel and drive.”

Cousin marriage contributes to social division and the formation of insular communities that undermine democracy.

“there are some Pockets within this country some of them held together by cousin marriage inward marriage where you marry within the clan and that means that they are divided from The Wider society and they block vote it's undermining our democracy that is a problem”

Matt Walsh believes that immigrants, such as Zohran Mamdani, are not assimilating into American culture but rather are dismantling and remaking it.

“They're not assimilating. They're dismantling what we have and rebuilding it into what they want.”

The immigrant experience involves a tension between the need for assimilation and the preservation of cultural identity, which food can bridge.

“I was very scared that I would lose my identity. Yeah. And that's why The Korean Vegan was started 'cause I was so determined not to let that happen.”

Immigrant children should feel proud of their background and not feel they need to apologize for their identity or ethnicity.

“regardless of where your parents came from, what their story is, um you know, you belong. You belong. You belong. And and you deserve to be to feel proud of where you came from, and you deserve to take up space and to be unapologetic about it.”