We Want to Hear About Your Experiences
How has growing up in an immigrant household shaped you? What have you learned? What do you find most rewarding or challenging about growing up? What do you want to share with others?
by: Sandra Cheah
“A rotting animal,” “your dead grandma’s cheese cabinet,” “a sewer overtone” food critics would label; yet, I never fail to beg for more...
Anonymous
Growing up with immigrant parents, my biggest fear was having my close acquaintances...
by: Lucia Kim
My sister was born in Korea while I was born in the states. We may have grown up with the same parents...
by: Lou-Ann Sire
My mother would always tell me that compliance and submission were the only way to get by...
Anonymous
Despite living in the states for over 20 years, my grandma only knows a few words in English...
by: Laura Leong
In the part of the city where I live, people crowd the streets to buy from the fruit stands...
by: Sandra Cheah
My first Thanksgiving wasn't with family. It was in an elementary school classroom labeled a...
by: Shirley Zhang
My Name
As an immigrant that moved to a very non-diverse neighborhood, I had trouble trying to embrace my Chinese name...
by: Diana Fedenko
Making friends as an immigrant was one of the hardest challenges my 10-year-old self had to face...
by: Lou-Ann Sire
Languages
Growing up trilingual has always been something that I overlooked. It had always just been second nature...
by: Lucia Kim
Polished
When I first moved to America, I took English classes with this woman who also moved from Korea...