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I ve walked between two worlds : What belonging means for Asian Americans
Elaine Teng
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Asian American families share their intergenerational perspectives on belonging in America. DD Lee (39), who is Chinese, poses with her daughter Isabelle Lee (13) in their home in Woodstock, GA on May 5, 2021.
For most of my life, I hated my name. Before I was born, my parents, who had come to the United States from China a few years before, had chosen to call me Elaine, but my mom’s sole white friend at the time told her that it was an old-lady name. She suggested Alyssa instead. ....

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