Names
If there is one thing that can affect who we are, or how we think about ourselves, it's our name. People make all sorts of assumptions about us based on our names. If we're called "Mei Ling," peopl...
Geography
This is a poem about immigrant identity, so it's no wonder that geography and geographic imagery play a pretty big part in it. If we're immigrants, we journey from one place to another. Chin's poem...
Stereotypes
If we're immigrants, chances are we'll have to deal with stereotypes. That's because people who are considered "strange" or "different" are often the victims of stereotypes. As a Chinese-American,...