The fear of failure in an immigrant family
When you’re an immigrant who spends your entire life working to be wealthy, oftentimes you work to the detriment of your health.
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The ordinary Asian American dream
For the first time, I’m interested in taking part in a sport — there’s no need for me to be an Olympian to simply enjoy being outside in the sun.
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My coincidental leap into feminism
A Modern Feminist?
For the first time, I could not look away; I had to acknowledge misogyny as a universal problem, not a mere inconvenience specific to my Eastern society.
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Professional purgatory
To the Left
My family sees a finance career as something that will keep me content because it’ll bring financial comfort. But I want more than comfort; I want happiness
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Fever dreaming of America
American Pie?
From rising hate speech to the travel ban to the attacks on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, our country is staggeringly anti-immigrant.
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Wills: Personal plans for reducing inequality
We should think about wills as political statements — expressions of refusal to allow future generations to live in such a lopsided society.
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An unfulfilled dream
Cal in Color
I took all the depression, guilt and anger that I had constantly built up within me and took it upon myself to accomplish my father’s unfinished mission. It wasn’t easy to get back on my feet, and I worried that I would fail my father because even though I had a lot of passion and determination, I felt completely lost.
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The layover
Between America and Me
“You’re not American? But you speak such good English!” I’m in my freshman year dining hall, making new friends over cold pizza and casual racism. Casual because my classmate doesn’t seem to be overtly prejudiced, and they’re definitely not aware of their faux pas. I shrug and inform them that
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Picks of the Week: Treats and tunes for the 1st week of November
On Monday, make a playlist. Pack it full of songs from Billboard’s hit chart, Spotify’s Discover Weekly and your friends’ list of favorites. Set it to play while you walk to pick up the week’s groceries or to Starbucks for your first holiday drink of the season — my choice is a classic peppermint mocha, with whipped cream, of course.
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Road to nowhere
Between America and Me
Ever since I can remember, I wanted to be “successful.” Kindergarten teachers told my parents I was one of the quicker learners in the class, and they in turn enrolled me in “gifted” student programs for math and science. My tennis coach was convinced that if I just put my
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