Many Asian Americans never discussed racism at home. Now parents are learning how. TODAY 3 days ago Elyse Pham During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, TODAY is sharing the community’s history, pain, joy and what’s next for the AAPI movement. We will be publishing personal essays, stories, videos and specials throughout the entire month of May. When Nathalie Pham was growing up, her parents were “pretty silent” about the realities of anti-Asian racism — despite its undeniable presence in their lives. Her father faced so much harassment over his Vietnamese name ‘Dung’ at work that he wanted to change it. Still, she recalls that the reigning code was “just to kind of keep your head down, with a heavy emphasis on assimilation.”