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“How do you speak English so well?” was the incredulous question I often received as a young girl coming to America from Hong Kong.
That was in the 1990s, when the world wasn’t as interconnected as it is today and identities were less fluid. By virtue of our bicultural, multidisciplinary background bestowed upon us by our Taiwanese American and Hong Kong doctors-turned-businesspeople parents, my family and I have existed across Whitmanesque “multitudes.” I spent school years in Hong Kong and summers in America. I got to study what I loved: art, literature,…
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