Google’s “Graduation”: A Commercial Guaranteed to Bring Tears to Your Eyes

I may be pregnant and hormonal, but I TOTALLY CRIED watching this Google commercial and I’m not ashamed to admit it.

This video holds special significance to anyone like me whose parents sacrificed everything to immigrate to a foreign country — a land where they did not know the language, where they were (and continue to be) ostracized for being a minority, where they work 80-hour weeks in the service industry, where they do not take a single vacation in YEARS — in order to provide good education, more opportunities and a better life for their children.

I love you, umma and appa.

Via Angry Asian Man.

6 Responses to “Google’s “Graduation”: A Commercial Guaranteed to Bring Tears to Your Eyes”

sandy June 30, 2010 at 7:05 pm
I’m not pregnant and I cried too My parents also came to the US to give me a better life and now that I’m "grown-up" I truly appreciate the hard work and sacrifice they made for me. When I was growing up I hardly saw my dad because he worked 7 days a week at Boeing so he could pay for me to go to college. My Dad finally retired this spring…I’m so proud of him.

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lisa June 30, 2010 at 7:34 pm
such a beautiful video..

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Charmi July 1, 2010 at 12:01 am
that was so sweet, i can definitely relate.

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Stephanie July 1, 2010 at 12:35 am
YAY! I love this. Teary eyed and not even pregnant.

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Sonia July 1, 2010 at 3:45 pm
How sweet! This made me, a fellow second-generation American, tear up as well– we’re so blessed to have such wonderful parents.

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campony July 6, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Does anyone know who plays the piano for this ad?

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