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Celeste Katz Marston, NBC News, February 28, 2021
Growing up in a predominantly white suburb of Washington, D.C., photojournalist Daniella Zalcman didn’t get to go to school with a single other Vietnamese person nor anyone, like herself, who was of mixed Vietnamese heritage. Instead, she got “ridiculous questions” about whether she was a “war baby.”
Fast forward to college, when Zalcman, now 34, walked into her Vietnamese language class and saw the other students in the room: Five women, all of them of part-Vietnamese background. “It was such a funny relief to immediately find this group of people who understood all my jokes, all of these different things that were part of who I was,” she told NBC Asian America.