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Success paths of young immigrants in higher
education and the professional world.

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I remember the time when
my mother came

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to pick me up, and... My mother wore the
veil and when he came to pick me up

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I was very tense, for what
my schoolmates would ask me.

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"How will I explain
why my mother wears the veil?".

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That did create a little stress
in me, a little confusion.

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As I say, school success doesn't
mean you getting good grades

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School success means much more

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It is that and feeling comfortable
and going out to the schoolyard and

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being with this group of equals
and so on.

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It's having a good relationship with the teachers.
It's feeling comfortable and enjoying going to school

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and not wishing, as in my first year in
school, the time to run out and go home.

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You could say that my parents
have always been by my side

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Empowering us to study.
We have to study

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We have to have a good future. We have to
be able to fend for ourselves in the future

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And I think that's an idea that
they have instilled in all brothers

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We are five brothers and everyone
has the job he or she wants

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Everyone has at least a high school degree.
Everybody has studied.

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And... They always tell
you "you have to study"

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If something goes wrong it's alright, you have
to pay attention, you have to put the effort.

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This whole effort capacity, all this will

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I've always been grateful
to my family for them.

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Especially my mother

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My girlfriends are 100%
Catalan, a I always say

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I have lived in the Eixample
all my life and thus I don't...

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I have no Moroccan friends.

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But they have given me so much.

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I remember that before we
only spoke Spanish in school

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Then my language was Spanish

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And when I came to basketball
in the Escola Pia, in BUP, high school now

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And in high school
it was 100% Catalan

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And it was, whether I speak Catalan or
here I become autistic, because

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people spoke to you in Catalan and you
had to respond in Catalan

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or at least I wanted to answer in Catalan

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I worked for half a year
as a waiter in Girona

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in a restaurant of a friend of my aunt

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And I learned there...

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I saw how I wanted my life to be

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I didn't want to be a waiter
for the rest of my life

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Or work as a Chinese

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That is to open a "dollar store"
or a grocery store

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I didn't want that

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Don't stay sitting on your hands
waiting for things to come to you.

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You have to do it yourself.

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And if you can do in a country that
can help you, the better

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Because maybe if you are a foreigner

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from Latin America, my country, for example

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If you stay there sitting on
your hands you'll do nothing

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If you stay there and try to
do something you may succeed

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But if you can leave and come here,
you will surely do something

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I advise mobilization, in
order to improve yourself