“Old World, Meet New” by Andrea is about the cultural pressures she faces from her family as a first-generation American. She states that even though she acknowledges and respects her parents’ efforts to give her and her brother a better life in a new world, their traditional values and expectations of her as a woman conflict with her life in America.

I can relate to this, as I also have parents who are immigrants. She writes “the pressure to ‘remember where you come from’ and conform to cultural principles that your family can’t seem to let go of is huge. Add being a girl to that equation and the burden gets even heavier.” Although my parents do not outright tell me to act a certain way because of my gender, they show bias against some things that would not normally be considered inappropriate in America.