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This is where my dad is from!! He lived here for a couple of years, until he moved to the Philippines!!

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It's unknown where my mother lived in Cambodia before she arrived in the States. Since she was just so young and escaping the war. Where her family was didn't exactly matter as long as they were all safe. And finally they reached a safe haven in America.

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I spent most of my life here. My parents are first generation Asian Americans who met in New York after coming to the US and separating from their family in Fuzhou, China. I was born in New York but eventually settled down in California with my dad.

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Kendall Park, South Brunswick Township, NJ, USA

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Kendall Park, South Brunswick Township, NJ, USA

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Kendall Park, South Brunswick Township, NJ, USA

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My parents immigrated to the US from Taiwan and settled in a suburb in central New Jersey. They came to the US after finishing their undergraduate education to pursue graduate degrees at universities on the East Coast. After spending 20 years in NJ, we moved to California.

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I have lived in San Diego my whole life. My dad immigrated from China at the age of 9, but neither of my parents really consider themselves to be immigrants. I think that all of my immediate family would say that San Diego is their home.

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This is where my mom was born!!! She lived in the Philippines until she was 15 when she moved to LA with her cousins until she was 20 when she married my dad!

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My lola married an American navy man and the rest is history

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Place where my biological parents met and I was born.

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Home for me now is probably California but being in Vietnam is definitely where my heart lies, the happy memories and nostalgia reside. My parents were born there and I'm actual the first person in my family to be born in America. My mother lived in the country side and was one of the boat people who came to America, while my grandfather was the ex-bodyguard of the previous president and therefore got dibs on escaping the country, but in actuality he was very patriotic and decided to stay and fight for his cause. But my father left for educational reasons year later.

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I was born in San Francisco and have been raised here all my life (19 years). I've never moved and I don't have many experiences outside of the bay area. Both my parents came here as immigrants as children and my dad now owns a restaurant here.

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I am from Merced, CA.  Although my family originates from Laos, home for me is in Merced.  My grandfather decided to settle in Merced, CA after the Secret War.  Even though there weren't any Hmong people in Merced, my grandpa made a community along with other Hmong families who settled in Merced.  He even started the first Hmong New Year in Merced.  Growing up here made me who I am today.

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I live in Hughson CA, if anyone knows what this town is, I think you can imagine how out of place I might feel, fun times...

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I have lived in San Diego for my entire life, not really surrounded by an Asian community. My mom and dad immigrated to the US for different reasons. My mom's side immigrated to the US to escape possible dangers that faced her family when she was young. My dad immigrated to the US on his own to pursue higher education at UC Berkeley. He had to sell cookies on the streets of Jakarta when he was young so his family could get money. Their histories are driven by the want to get a better life.

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I was the first of my siblings born in Sacramento (my older two were born in San Jose). When the cost of living became too high in SJ, my family moved to Sac and my dad transferred since he worked with Kaiser at the time.

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Both my biological parents are from Fuzhou, China. My dad at age 15 went overseas and began finding a new life in New York, US where he met my mother. However, after they split, my mother stayed in New York while my father (who I grew up with) settled down in California.

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I was born in Shanghai. My family immigrated to the United States 10 years ago and living in Milpitas since then

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Home for me now is Southern California, but my parents immigrated from India in their early 20s. My Dad came for undergrad and went to school in Iowa, and my mom came after they got married. From there, they moved around the East Coast until I was around 3 (so for a little less than 10 years) when we moved to California.

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My parents are immigrants from South Vietnam. My mom came to the U.S. by a plane and my dad came by boat. They first lived and met in Idaho. They then moved to SoCal specifically San Gabriel Valley and there they had all four of my siblings. Home now is currently in Ontario, CA.

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My grandmother was born and raised in S. Korea and met my grandfather while he was in Korea with the US Air Force. They married and had my mother there before living in the Philippines briefly, where my aunt was born. They eventually moved to San Jose, and then to New Jersey, and then back to San Jose.

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I grew up in the States (the Bay, Irvine) and in Taiwan (Taipei). My parents are from Taipei and the US. It was a very mixed upbringing around other international and American students.

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I grew up in the States (the Bay, Irvine) and in Taiwan (Taipei). My parents are from Taipei and the US. It was a very mixed upbringing around other international and American students.

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My home is Dublin, CA. My family moved here 10 years ago as the city was growing. It is a pretty diverse city, with a large population of Asian Americans. Like myself, many people my age from Dublin have parents who immigrated from different countries.

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My parents are from China, moved to Germany to seek out better opportunities and then moved to Maryland, which I consider my home

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I was born in China but I have lived in Hong Kong my whole life

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This is where I was born and raised and it is a very diverse community where I always felt embraced by the large Asian community.

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My mom is from Jalisco and so my background and culture is from here. The food and traditions from my mom's home is very nice and I hope to one day be able to fly there and visit.

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My dad is from Anhui while my mom is from Chongqing. They met in Beijing and moved to Germany to seek out better opportunities and then moved to the United States (my dad being able to immigrate to the US due to being a bio researcher, which the US apparently needed then).

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My family currently resides in Fremont, California. The high school I attended was majority Asian, and most of Fremont was too. However, the community I lived in is very diverse in terms of race, age, socioeconomic status, and education. When we had block parties (pre-COVID), it was always very interesting and eye-opening to see all these cultures.

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I was born in Hayward but have lived my entire life in Union City.

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I was born and raised in Hong Kong. I'm so proud of being a Hongkonger.

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I was born and raised in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is always my home.

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I would consider Los Angeles as my home

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My grandmother grew up here and then moved to the US after meeting my grandfather.

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Both my mom and dad left Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War alongside their families. Their families spread throughout the country, but most ended up in California. However, they first met in Michigan where I was born before following other family members who ended up in larger Vietnamese American communities throughout Southern California.

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Moeko Tanaka
I am from Japan. I live in Konosu City, Saitama Prefecture.
My father grew up in Saitama prefecture and my mother grew up in Tochigi prefecture. I heard from her parents that my ancestors are from Nagano prefecture and Tokyo.

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My Dad was from here!

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My Mom was from here!

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My great grandma paid for her family to escape from Vietnamese communists to the US, where they constantly moved across the country. She left behind her fortune in Vietnam to give my family freedom. They eventually settled down in San Jose, CA, where she and my grandma still live today.

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This is my hometown-- also titled the Most Diverse City in America. I always grew up around other Asian Americans, and I'm grateful that I didn't internalize any self hatred. While my city is notable for crime and other not so great things, I'm proud of it and how far the immigrant population has come.

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my parents came to California for college, both moved from Hong Kong

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My parents are both from Afghanistan and came to the US as refugees due to the Soviet-Afghan war.

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I've lived in Suisun, California for my entire life, and my parents moved there because my father grew up in that area.

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City Of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

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City Of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

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City Of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

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My dad and his family came from Manila and came to America in around 1968 when he was still in elementary school. My grandmother was a chemist and was able to get a professional visa for the US.

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I was born and raised in San Francisco California but both my parents were immigrants here at different times. Though I am a bit white washed, I enjoy that the community has tried to embrace Asian culture and it is still pretty vibrant today.

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Fremont, CA has been home for me since I was born. My family came to Silicon Valley due to the job opportunities that were available here.

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I consider Orange County as home now. Our family has been moving around a lot. We moved to Orange County almost 10 years ago now. The large Korean-immigrant community in the area drove us to move to Orange County.

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I've lived in Northridge pretty much all my life. It's predominantly white although Asians make up around 17% of the population. It's a pretty nice place although as someone who's parents are Chinese, we tend to go out to San Gabriel Valley when we order food and stuff.

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My parents moved from San Jose to give us better education and a safer neighborhood to grow up in.

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I grew up in San Diego, CA - in the north county suburbs of azn culture and high-achieving high schools, but also with Vietnamese communities in Linda Vista/City Heights, Mexican, Filipino, Chinese, Korean, Persian, and all kinds of other ethnic communities surrounding us. To me, socal's food, culture, and interconnected relationships will always be special.

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My parents are from central and south Vietnam, and after the Vietnam War, they became refugees- my dad fled by boat to a Malaysian refugee camp, then to Canada, then to San Diego, CA. My mom was sponsored over in 1989 by her brothers and also moved to San Diego.