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Identity is such a fluid, relational, and contextual construction<\/strong> that pinning it down is extremely problematic, if not impossible. The majority of our storytellers were born in Asia or of Asian heritage, weathered through numerous stormy challenges, before eventually reestablished themselves in Northfield. They have lived in many different parts of the world and assumed many different social and cultural roles. A lot of them have difficulties describing their own personal identity when we spoke.\u00a0How they perceive themselves, and how others see them, is indeed a very complicated matter.<\/p>\n

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Caroline Ticarro-Parker<\/strong>\u00a0– “I believe I still lack state identity, country identity… Knowing that I was one of four, three being my brothers, or maybe… two or three other people that were… of any color, not just Vietnamese, was always… a big deal.”<\/p>\n

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Caroline Ticarro-Parker Transcription<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t
Um, okay, so I\u2019m 43 years old and I believe I still lack state identity, country identity. I, growing up, as a kid I think you\u2019re pretty re-, much more resilient than you are as an adult. I think as a kid… it can be dramatic for a day, maybe an hour. I, I know bullying is real, I know it that happens today, I know it\u2019s much different today than it was when I was a kid. But I also remember walking away from things and saying you\u2019re just… pretty dumb, you know, and, and being okay with that. Knowing that I was one of four, three being my brothers, or maybe, you know, two or three other people that were, were of any color, not just Vietnamese was always, you know, a big deal. But I don\u2019t think, I think the stereotypes are the same. I think that how you treat people depending on your age is the same. I think now that I\u2019m older, I think that the challenge is harder because I don\u2019t feel that there is a home for me. My, my home is, well Minnesota is my home because my husband and my children live here. But, I wouldn\u2019t say that I\u2019m American. I certainly don\u2019t look American. Even now, being in the country for however long I\u2019ve been here, anyone is always surprised I can speak English. I think I speak English okay. Even though it\u2019s my second language. When I\u2019m in Vietnam I don\u2019t look Vietnamese so people don\u2019t assume I\u2019m Vietnamese, and so I feel like I have no home, even though I hold a US passport. Um…so I think that\u2019s more of trying to figure out what that identity is. <\/span>I identify myself as a strong feminist woman that\u2019s a… you know, trying to be a good role model and trying to make an impact on the world in my own way. But that\u2019s about it.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n

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Ameeta Sony<\/b><\/span> – “…I grew up in an Indian family living in Thailand. I can actually just accept myself as who I am and…I don\u2019t have to have one foot here and one foot there, because now I have a third country, I only have two feet. So I can\u2019t do anything there.”<\/p>\n

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Ameeta Sony Transcription<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t
As I was growing up I always kinda didn\u2019t, didn\u2019t really know where I belonged, because as I said, <\/span>I grew up in an Indian family living in Thailand.<\/span> Um…it seemed to me like, at the time, my one leg was, not one leg, I\u2019m sorry, one foot was in Thailand and one foot was in India in a way<\/span>, because I actually went and got my education in India. And it was hard, because when I went to India people would say \u201cYou\u2019re not Indian,\u201d and then in Thailand people would say \u201cYou\u2019re not Thai.\u201d So I was kinda a little bit confused where did I belong at times. It took many, many years to come to understand that it doesn\u2019t really matter. But, I struggle a lot as a kid. I would want to be like other friends, obviously. Uh…and then my parents would hear and say \u201coh, no, don\u2019t forget you are also an Indian here,\u201d and try to, you know…uh, they wanted me to follow the Indian tradition as well. So, that kinda, was hard. And then I think by the time I came to the US I finally accepted that I don\u2019t have to necessarily be confused. <\/span>I can actually just accept myself as who I am and…I don\u2019t have to have one foot here and one foot there, because now I have a third country, I only have two feet. So I can\u2019t do anything there.<\/span> So, I think of myself and so then I hear the wor<\/span>d\u00a0\u201ccitizen of the world.\u201d I like that. <\/span>So I, I identify myself as citizen of the world.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n

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Jane Murakami<\/strong>\u00a0– “I think that that at the time, you know I guess all my life I really have not identified myself as being Japanese.”<\/p>\n

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Jane Murakami Transcription<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t
I think that at the time, you know, all my life I really have not identified myself as being Japanese. <\/span>Um…I mean on the little, little things, I always check the, the Asian um…box, but um…but yeah, it\u2019s, it\u2019s, I don\u2019t know that, beside my Pearl Harbor Day parties that there were any other times that I, you know, was really identified as being um…that Japanese girl, you know. I had wished, I wish that I had taken either Global or a semester abroad or something like that. I, I really regret that. Um…and I, I probably would have, now if I were to do it now, I would choose a semester in Japan or you know similar. So, um…it\u2019s, now that my mom, my mom just passed away, and now we\u2019re, um…we\u2019re finding out, <\/span>growing up we heard Dad\u2019s story \u2018cause Dad, Dad talked about the internment and everything else. So we heard Dad\u2019s story. And, I\u2019m, I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s because of the traditional, the cultural thing, we never heard Mom\u2019s story. You know, very, very little bit of Mom\u2019s story.<\/span> And so now um…, I just got a letter from her sister, from my aunt in Japan, and to, to hear a little bit. You know, so, we\u2019re going to try and keep that communication. And, and it, it saddens me to, to \u00a0realize that I\u2019m going to learn about my mom\u2019s family after she\u2019s gone, you know um…. But I think that, being traditional that she was okay with that. I know that when my father passed away her brothers called and said \u201cOkay, when are you, when are you bringing the kids home?\u201d You know, and she\u2019s like \u201cWOW, wait a minute,\u201d you know. And that\u2019s, they just assumed that since her husband died she would pack all of us up and come back to Japan. So, and I think, WOW would my life have been different at that point in time.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n

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Identity is such a fluid, relational, and contextual construction<\/strong> that pinning it down is extremely problematic, if not impossible. The majority of our storytellers were born in Asia or of Asian heritage, weathered through numerous stormy challenges, before eventually reestablished themselves in Northfield. They have lived in many different parts of the world and assumed many different social and cultural roles. A lot of them have difficulties describing their own personal identity when we spoke.\u00a0How they perceive themselves, and how others see them, is indeed a very complicated matter.<\/p>

Caroline Ticarro-Parker<\/strong>\u00a0- \"I believe I still lack state identity, country identity... Knowing that I was one of four, three being my brothers, or maybe... two or three other people that were... of any color, not just Vietnamese, was always... a big deal.\"<\/p>

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Um, okay, so I\u2019m 43 years old and I believe I still lack state identity, country identity. I, growing up, as a kid I think you\u2019re pretty re-, much more resilient than you are as an adult. I think as a kid... it can be dramatic for a day, maybe an hour. I, I know bullying is real, I know it that happens today, I know it\u2019s much different today than it was when I was a kid. But I also remember walking away from things and saying you\u2019re just... pretty dumb, you know, and, and being okay with that. Knowing that I was one of four, three being my brothers, or maybe, you know, two or three other people that were, were of any color, not just Vietnamese was always, you know, a big deal. But I don\u2019t think, I think the stereotypes are the same. I think that how you treat people depending on your age is the same. I think now that I\u2019m older, I think that the challenge is harder because I don\u2019t feel that there is a home for me. My, my home is, well Minnesota is my home because my husband and my children live here. But, I wouldn\u2019t say that I\u2019m American. I certainly don\u2019t look American. Even now, being in the country for however long I\u2019ve been here, anyone is always surprised I can speak English. I think I speak English okay. Even though it\u2019s my second language. When I\u2019m in Vietnam I don\u2019t look Vietnamese so people don\u2019t assume I\u2019m Vietnamese, and s<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/ain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}