My parents climb to success with their own family happened because they are living every day those three characteristics they taught my brothers. sisters and me. My parents came to America in 1963 with hopes of a better future for themselves and their children. They have no education whatsoever and to this day. many years later. barely utter the English language. They were migrant workers in California and Washington. My older siblings vividly remember their childhood when they. too. had to work in the fields. alongside my parents. When my parents first arrived in America. they made a pact with each other that the life they lived was not going to be the destiny of their children.