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Background

Trisha is a young mother from Bangladesh who moved to Queens, New York recently. Her immediate kindess to others around her made her stand out as one with an exceptional, yet common, life experience. This is her story:

Immigrating

Moving from Bangladesh to a new culture like the United States can often result in major culture shock. Yet for Trisha, being in crowded places has been a way of life well before coming to New York. She found a nearly entirely Bengali community that she associates with, so the major change came with learning the language. She picked up English fairly quickly with studying it a bit before coming and now living 5 years.

She has a young 15 month old baby, but with the change in her community, she decided it was best to stay with her baby and not put him in day care or have someone else be the primary caregiver. Instead, working shifts at the airport parking lot, she’s able to work a reverse schedule from her husband. They have just enough time to see each other and have a quickly daily update before their shift changes and they go from working to stay at home parent. Both have to pull full time shifts in both responsibilities to make ends meet financially and for their family. Yet they feel this is the best option to give their son the care and attention he needs from his parents, even if it means they are not often all three together.

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Her Perspective

Trisha, although most think she has americanized her name, is her birth name and quite common in Bangladesh. She rides a crowded bus every day for work and takes her son in his stroller everywhere they go, so crowds and standing makes up a lot of her day. Yet despite the lack of being able to sit, she’s the first to offer someone in need a seat on the bus, the first to look after a weary parent, as she herself knows that feeling all too well, and the first to help a lost tourist, a feeling, as an immigrant, she was well acquainted with as well.

Despite living close to wealth of Wall Street and the center of world trade, Trisha’s life is all about making ends meet and providing a future for her child where people can see people as people and humanity reigns as the prime commerce.

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