Alex responded, “When you're a mixed-race American, there's often the sense that you have to choose or one culture is chosen for you just by virtue of where you grow up and what the dominant cultural practices are.”
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She further explained that she grew up considering herself a generic American rather than putting herself in the ethnic boxes of white or Asian. She also described an incident when she was 12 years old spending time at a diner with her father. Someone asked her if she was adopted after seeing her with her dad, and it opened her eyes to finding a sense of her own personal culture.
