Between worlds; belonging fades, identity searches.
Jake Dinh, Lake Forest, CA Being Vietnamese but born in the US created a feeling of disconnection for me neither fully connected to Vietnamese heritage...
“I’d never get away with that!”
Susie Wilson, Lake Forest, CA This was said to me by my friend who’s Mexican after I told a funny story about getting away with...
Filipino Puerto Rican, like Bruno Mars
Leandro Oquendo, Lake Forest, CA I am half Filipino and half Puerto Rican, and I have never met anyone with those same two ethnicities. So,...
The outside doesn’t tell a story
Aidan, Lake Forest, CA We look at people and decide so many things about them before even hearing their names. Listen to people’s stories and...
Regular Asian trying to find myself
Keisuke Okaguchi, Lake Forest, CA I am Japanese but born in United States. Both parents are from Japan and lived in a Asian life style...
Go back to the country you’re from!
Belsy Montufar, Lake Forest, CA As a Hispanic myself, there have been multiple instances in which I have felt too white to be Hispanic, and...
Understand that you will never understand
Rafael, Lake Forest, CA People will never understand the hardships and stress racism brings on people.
Do you eat dogs and cats?
Ian, Lake Forest, CA Being an Asian American, we are constantly under the attack of racial discrimination and stereotype. In middle school, since I lived...
Same DNA but born this way
Lily, Lake Forest, CA. Currently taking Biological Anthropology and am finding it both fascinating and eye-opening. My six words are an excerpt from Lady Gaga’s...
I thought your house would be big
Michelle Robillard, Lake Forest, CA. I’ve never lived in a “house.” It’s always been an apartment or condo, never had my own room except when...
Nobody can tell what i am.
Glade Koehler Lake Forest, CA My father: German and Suomi My mother: Black-Seneca and Ashkenazi
