37. A CONVERSATION: GROWING UP IN DIFFERENT TIMES
会话 MICHELLE CHAN (see Post #36: Chan Family) generously shared some impressions of growing up in Niagara Falls. She didn’t live in Chinatown. Her times were more liberal. Our experiences of being Chinese and growing up in the predominantly Eurocentric culture are different, yet related. If not separated by the great distance between where we each live, Michelle and I might have had the following face-to-face conversation. Instead, her words have been excerpted from our correspondence. Michelle: There wasn’t much cultural diversity. In el...