“You are the whitest black person I ever knew” “You are not an Asian if you aren’t a doctor or an engineer” “Why do you have to be so loud/so shy” These are just a few examples of microaggressions we as immigrants experience frequently. The weirdest part of...
Starting a conversation with a new person altogether doesn’t come easy to a lot of people. I had vocab and pronunciation barriers when I started engaging with locals in the US. I soon learned that most Americans are raised to be vocal and confident and have no...
You know that feeling when you enter Starbucks and you see people ordering coffee like a pro saying words that you don’t understand? Yeah, I feel you girl. One of the reasons why I was perfectly okay getting coffee from a gas station – so that I...
