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OPINION

How I learned to be Asian-American

By Amy Wang | May 4, 2018

This column was born because I was tired of not being able to express my Asianness. I’ll admit that I spent my first three years at Duke trying to figure out how to be Asian but not too Asian. After all, I came here to expand my identity, not to close myself in to just one characteristic about my life. It was at Duke that I started to take on the idea of being “Asian-American”, but still don’t know quite now how that label fits in the greater scheme of my life. I’m still trying to parse through bits and pieces of it every day.

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OPINION

Don’t paint me as shy

By Amy Wang | April 17, 2018

I desperately wish that everyone I meet thinks of me as the complex individual I am—an amalgamation of bits of each of those characteristics.

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OPINION

How Asian will my children be?

By Amy Wang | March 26, 2018

When my children inherit a family background, genes and appearances of a Chinese individual. But it is up to me, their mother, to decide how much of the culture I wish to instill in them—and at this point in time, I wouldn’t know how to begin.

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OPINION

Why these Olympics were different

By Amy Wang | March 5, 2018

But perhaps the most enduring aspect of the Olympics is that all American athletes compete to bring glory back to the United States, regardless of their race.

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OPINION

The four letters my parents gave me

By Amy Wang | February 12, 2018

My parents gave me “Amy” because it sounded as American to them as baseball and apple pie. To have given me “Amy” and nothing else implies that my parents wished for me to be American first and foremost.

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OPINION

What makes an Asian-American 'pretty?'

By Amy Wang | January 30, 2018

Female beauty ideals are difficult enough to deal with as is. But as an Asian-American woman, I feel caught between two opposing standards of beauty. Too often, it feels as if I do not fulfill enough of either ideal to which I am compared. Either way, I feel inadequate. 

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OPINION

The make-up of your bookbag

By Amy Wang | October 26, 2017

I can’t help but feel that as a student of color here on campus, I am missing out on equally intelligent, experienced, and capable professors of color who would have been even more advantageous to my academic growth by connecting with me on a personal level of identity. 

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OPINION

Are Asians people of color?

By Amy Wang | September 14, 2017

It’s time to recognize that we did not get here alone. It’s time for us to open our eyes and stand in solidarity with someone besides ourselves for once.

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