The road to becoming a full-fledged academic can be an arduous process that entails many years of hard work and scholarship. However, attaining a terminal degree is only the beginning as the ascent up the academic ranks is yet another lengthy journey that will span six more years. Within this rite of passage towards a.
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Monterey Park is my hometown but not my home. On Lunar New Year, Monterey Park the first ever Asian American suburb was the site of a mass shooting. Monterey Park is also the city where, according to my parents, I will die. Grinnell was a place where I was supposed to learn resilience,.
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What does it mean to be Asian American? Is there a pan-Asian American identity? Will we find answers to how we can reconcile being a part of a diaspora to our role in society today? In other words: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it Asian American?
As a Chinese American struggling with these questions myself, I talked to individuals from Grinnell College about how they wrestle with their racial identity in this present moment.
There is no single story that can explain what it’s like to be held up as a model minority and yet still be discriminated against. We each come with our own unique voices, some of which are collected here, a time capsule of how individuals view their identities.