It’s Never Too Late To Get In Touch With Your Cultural Background!
Rediscovering Your Cultural Identity Can Be Done
Like a number of other kids of immigrants becoming an adult inside a white-colored-centric community, I attempted to cover my identity the majority of my childhood. Whenever my mother would makeover from soccer practice and on-site visit, “Fang Fang!” (my Chinese name), I’d shush her. “Speak Ennnnnglish, Mother,” I’d whisper. I recall kids asking me why my eyes look how they do. I recall moving away from the college bus and running home in tears, telling my parents that children were teasing to be different.
“Why must i be Chinese?” I’d ask.
“It’s what you are,” my father would say. “Be happy with your heritage. Are proud of being Chinese.”
“It was simpler to combine in, adopt a palatable Midwestern identity, and merely completely ...