Growing up bullied by Hispanic classmates in a Hispanic-American neighborhood in Los Angeles, I have always viewed my own Chinese culture as something alien, something to be ashamed of. I abandoned the native Cantonese dialect I was born speaking, and strove to learn English and even Spanish as much as I could. I chose to play flute instead of violin in my elementary school orchestra, because the violin was played by the typical Chinese daughter I vowed not to be....

Growing up in a predominately Hispanic ghetto in Los Angeles, I have struggled to balance three different cultures in a multi-ethnic city. Bullying by my Hispanic classmates led me to view my own Chinese culture as something alien, something to be ashamed of. However, it is through my local Chinese school that I have maintained my own culture, my identity. It not only provided classes that taught me how to speak Mandarin Chinese in addition to my Cantonese dialect, but...

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