Conducted a full interview with Rhyck Huang. He's part of the generation of young Taiwanese that left Argentina shortly after the financial crisis. Rhyck, now 33, came to Argentina when he was 8. While he speaks Spanish better than his Chinese, he has never felt comfortable being in Argentina.
After high school, he didn't want to work in his family's supermarket, so he went to Canada to attend college. When he came back in 2002, after the financial crisis, he realized that most of his friends his age had left. He worked as a manager in a Chinese-owned store for a while, and decided to move back to Taiwan.
"There are more opportunities Taiwan if you know English," Huang said. "Here, it's hard for a person of Chinese descent to find work with an Argentine company."
Despite living most of his life in Argentina, Huang still feels difficulty with integration. "Our generation doesn't have the language problem our parents did, but many of us still feel that it's hard to become part of Argentine society," he said. "When I went back to Taiwan, I felt like I was part of it. I would fight for my rights. In Argentina, I still feel like a foreigner."
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