<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

One of the interesting side effects of multiculturalism is that you have a lot of people ending up in different countries due to some pretty shitty political or civil turmoils (previously shitty, now more awesome due to time elapsing to dull the pain etc.)

For example, I'm an Australian of Chinese descent. My dad was a university delegate to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, doing everything from singing the internationale to manning tank barricades, and more or less left China because of that (not that he was chased out, he just didn't want to stay anymore after the protests failed).

However, go back to my (paternal) grandpa and shit gets more interesting. He was one of the first socialists/communists in China. At a 14 he left his fairly wealthy family to join an agrarian socialist uprising. By 18 during the "white terror" he was arrested and sentenced to death for treason (obv. he survived, the communists saved him after he languished for close to a decade in jail). In fact you could probably write a book on his life alone, incl. his later fall from grace during the cultural revolution because he was caught in the huge struggle between the radical maoist and pragmatic moderate wing of the CCP (he was one of the moderates).

So reddit, especially first and second generation migrants, tell me your stories (also AMA about my family's fairly extensive political history, even I am currently on and off involved in politics though obv. it's less interesting now because when my party lose we just stay out of office for a few years...rather than getting shot)
<bot>: our migrant grandparents/parents often have more awesome lives than us, my grandpa for example was sentenced to death for treason at the age of 18 (he survived), please share your exp.