To celebrate the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, CALex (Chinese Americans of Lexington) hosts “My American Story” to celebrate the diversity in the AAPI community. Helen Yang, Vice President of the AAER and CALex, is one of the organizers.
Notable Quotes from Speakers
When people knock you down that’s the time to pick yourself up and keep on going
No matter what difficulties we had he always reminded me that fair play is the American way.
One nation one people
We belong, we are not perpetual foreigners, … what we try to do is to engage in constructive engagement, stress the positivity and not lower ourselves to negativity.
I hope that, through these different platforms and events that we can continue to learn more about each other, strengthen our relationships and truly openly welcome one another. I think that what will continue to find is that we’re more alike than we are different.
I’m a young person my American story is just starting
I just think this is a great opportunity to hear out from everybody else … speak up and value ourselves is a very crucial part of my learning process of real American culture
Such passion such determination such energy such new ideas that they will grow and make the opportunities. Not to be worried, not to be scared of AAPI. We are there to make things bigger, better, more wonderful.
For the video recording, visit: https://youtu.be/cYjGJ7NQ5Dk
For more, visit: https://calexma.org/community/my-american-story/