What Does It Mean to Be ‘Lucky to Be Here’?
Reckoning with anti-Asian hate in a country my grandparents believed in so desperately
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5 min readMar 26, 2021
“Lucky to be here.”
It’s a phrase I hear all the time about being an American — more specifically, being an American whose family came from someplace else. We live in a powerful, prosperous country full of opportunity and…