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  “So You’re Really Just Chinese”
  I told a white woman in her 40s my full background being born and raised in America to third-generation Chinese-Cambodian parents...and that was her response.
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  How Africa Led Me Back to My Chinese Roots
  The Cape Verdeans I met in Africa with the Peace Corps had a hard time believing that someone with the shape of my eyes & the color of my hair could be American.
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  The Boys of Tianjin
  After 10 years in suburban Ohio America, A 19-year-old Chinese girl returns to the city of her birth looking to find a story to write and instead finds a boy.
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  I Became American and The World Kept Turning
  The woman took my burgundy Chinese passport, put it in her drawer, and that was it: I was an American. But...there was no chorus of angels, no burst of light.
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  Half-Chinese, Half-Irish, Not Quite “Banana”
  I was never called a yellow fruit, no, but was always seen as slightly different. I went from being the most Asian person in the room to, by far, the very least.
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  China’s Education System Made Me an Individual
  In the US, I was a dorky geek. I had almost no social life, few friends, but perfect grades. There, I could justify my lack of social grace with “intelligence”.
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  Are We Content to Let Our DNA Define Us?
  Some are content to establish that they are different thus special. But are we to let our DNA, which we have no control over & contribute nothing to, define us?
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