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I was born in New York City. I have lived here my entire life. However, my parents have not and they immigrated to the United States. My father came to the United States from Taiwan to expand his career. My mother came from China because she married my father. They arrived only a few years …

My mom and dad’s families used to live in a small village in China called Taishan. It was only one of the many villages in the province Guangzhou so I wouldn’t be surprised if you never heard of it. However it was home to many of my relatives until they decided to come to America. …

Trying to vaguely remember the moment I came to the United States, I don’t think I even remember my parents telling me that we were moving there – possibly because I was only five years old. Leaving the comfortable environment of South Korea, my parents decided to take us to a foreign land filled with …

My family’s migration story to the United States starts in the 1870s, when my mother’s father’s grandmother came to New York City from Austria. This generation of my family grew up in Ridgewood and Bushwick section of Brooklyn. My family has been and still is Jewish, but my mother’s father’s family was largely secular because …