My cousin posted this on his Facebook the other day:
Being a senior this year makes me regret not ever maintaining a Vietnamese identity and keep a steady vocabulary of Vietnamese words or staying in Vietnamese school. I will have nothing of my cultural identity to pass onto and of my children if I ever had children. If I had kids, what would I tell them? That I was white-washed? People see me, they don’t know my name, they guess Chinese, Filipino, Cambodian.
No. I’m Vietnamese, and I’m not ashamed to be one.
A goal of mine is to sit down one day and listen to my parents tell me of my roots; where they came from and where my ancestors came from. I want to pass down their stories.
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I think a lot of Asian American youth can relate to this. In high school, I did everything I could to disassociate...
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