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In Many Asian American Families, Racism Is Rarely Discussed
By Rachel Ramirez — 2021
“I just didn’t want them to stress and not be afraid to go to school. The less they knew, the better it was.”
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.4
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