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Leah Lizarondo: Without the voices of Asian American women, the American dream is diminished for all By Leah Lizarondo © Provided by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Here in Pittsburgh, less than 5% of the population is foreign-born. Barely anyone looks like me or my children. I am brown, I look racially ambiguous, which speaks to the diversity of Asia itself. Asian is not a monolithic race. I am Filipino my heritage is largely a combination of natives of the islands, Chinese and Spanish. First, I want to acknowledge my own relative privilege. But that has not made me immune to microaggressions that have slowly accumulated over a decade. In “survival mode,” I’ve learned how to “manage” these microaggressions quashing them until they became deep-seated, dormant and silently defining.

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