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“Forget about it. Just be happy!”   I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard this.   Growing up as a Chinese-American was difficult, to say the least. My parents and my grandparents immigrated from Guangzhou—a city in southeast China situated on the Pearl River. My relatives endured generational trauma from major historical events such…

Friday, March 13th, 2020. I thought it would have been another ordinary end of the week; going to school, attending math and art class and finally being with my friends at the end of the day. Little did I know it was the last time I would do that for the rest of the school…

Self-deprecation: the act of reprimanding oneself by belittling, undervaluing, or disparaging oneself, or being excessively modest.   At first, everything seems normal. The jokes you make at your own expense are just for fun; they just show that you don’t take yourself too seriously right? There can’t be any harm in laughing at your own…