in addition to NewVoice's comments, I have the following:

来源: 于 2011-06-29 16:01:35 [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读：次

I never try to work hard as an immigrant as if I were not.

your sentence means:我从来没有想过像一个非移民那样努力地奋斗

races->race seems better to refer to the concept of "种族".