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who I am.
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That was a question that trouble myself.
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For a long time I had unforgettable story which other
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people had never experienced that experience.
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Let me accept myself as an Asian, and today I
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will tell you guys my story, to talk not only
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off myself, but for American yours.
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I'm a typical ABC.
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I live in San Francisco, Chinatown my whole childhood.
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I love my transformers and put all my effort on
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playing transformers because there weren't too many conflicts about races
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surrounding me.
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Maybe that's why I regard to raise differences in the
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evil off the world later than I should have my
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story beginning my new American school.
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It was hard to adapt to live in a new
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condition. As an Asian, people have several stereotypes about us.
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They asked me some ridiculous question like Do Chinese people,
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your dogs and insult take me about this every time
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they saw me, even though I was just eating my
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dumplings. To be honest, I was a kind of stereotypical
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Asia. I feel unconfident about being Asian and argue with
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my best friend because of skin color.
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I know it sounds a little confusing now, so let's
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go straight to my story.
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My new school was a diverse community, different from life
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in Chinatown.
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There one student who immigrated here for different countries, I
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was able to understand their feelings off being worrying for
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inland. My first experience here was not great.
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Some students were ruled.
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They enjoy commenting on other's culture and bullying others to
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show their own power.
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Luckily, I met my best friend here.
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However, I lead on their trust some classmates against me
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due to stereotypes on Asia.
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To express my own dissatisfied cation, I created ah conflict
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with my friend and I usually imagine myself as an
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all American boy with white skin, blue isis and curly
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hair. I thought if I become a white, I will
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get rid off the bad art itude from others towards
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me for being Asian.
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I had a trouble Son.
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Chinese cousin.
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He has a picked up is a famous hairstyle and
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Qin Dynasty.
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His character made him since unroll some Asia stereotypes reflected
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on him.
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He sometimes spoke loudly in public places and talking quite
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a silly way with his Chinglish.
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I know he was not a rude person and doesn't
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intend to ignore me However, if you had a cousin
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who embarrassed you easily, you will find it hard to
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control your temper.
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I couldn't endure in his behavior, but I was jealous
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of him as well.
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He was an old fashioned Chinese who looked weird to
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other people.
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I was surprised by his bluntness to just be himself.
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He was an extreme example.
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Well, as I learned a lot from him in the
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past, I hadn't realized my huge mistake, which was I
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wasn't myself.
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I feel an hour with him because he reminds me
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that I hate myself as an Asia.
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When I faced people who had stereotypes on Asian, I
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was unable to change their mind.
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Immediately. People knew about Asian stare, stereotype, lifestyle or crotches
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through social media, and no one care about whether the
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information was true or not.
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I even doesn't trust myself and respect my own croucher.
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How to let other people to respect me and treat
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me fairly 1.2% off the population in the U.
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S. A.
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B. C's most ABC is sometimes will be confused about
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their identity.
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Who I am, where do I belong to?
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The question is so hard so that I couldn't give
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you the answer.
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Now, starting from my parents who are immigrates into the
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U. S.
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That has bound me to have a more challenging life.
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As in Asia or as a person.
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The final goal had always been to fit in.
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It doesn't matter if there are misunderstandings from others or
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if I can change someone else.
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Mind what is important.
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ISS to bay myself and let everyone see what I
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can do no matter where I belong.