Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month - Perspectives from AAPI Waco Small Businesses
By Jaja Chen
The month of May marks Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.
Throughout the years, my perspective on what it means to be Asian American - Taiwanese American specifically - has expanded. As a child of Taiwanese immigrants growing up originally in Norman, Oklahoma, I was often one of a few children in my school that identified as Asian American. I dreaded bringing the food my mom would cook for lunch at school as I wanted to be like all the other students in my classes - eating sandwiches, chips, and “American food.”