Have you ever experienced discomfort because you were a minority? I recently read “Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who wrote powerfully and poetically about his experience as a black man. The incidents he recounted reminded me of a couple of my personal experiences. Continue reading “Between the World and Me”
Tag: Asian American
The love between my parents
What are the different expressions of love? I never really understood my parents’ daily verbal wrangling, which seems to have the same pattern after 40+ years of marriage. Over time, as I became more aware of cultural differences, I began to wonder, could the bickering be also an expression of a deeper emotion, maybe even love? Continue reading “The love between my parents”