self-portrait as [figure from native country's mythology or history] italicized anglicized word in native language metaphor involving fruit cultural or language barrier between narrator and family metaphor involving a body of water elementary schoolers hate the food your parents make writer lives in the bay area relies on parents' trauma in immigration sonics of native language vs. english "motherland," "mother tongue," etc. at least partially plagiarizes someone else metaphor involving a celestial object emotional distance with parents racial microaggression white kids assume you're good at math forgetting or not learning native language mention of mangoes perpetual foreigner trope namedrops traumatic event in native country "mother" and "father" instead of "mom" and "dad" ending is Learning To Accept Yourself metaphor involving a bird clear sense of self- loathing metaphor involving a fish self-portrait as [figure from native country's mythology or history] italicized anglicized word in native language metaphor involving fruit cultural or language barrier between narrator and family metaphor involving a body of water elementary schoolers hate the food your parents make writer lives in the bay area relies on parents' trauma in immigration sonics of native language vs. english "motherland," "mother tongue," etc. at least partially plagiarizes someone else metaphor involving a celestial object emotional distance with parents racial microaggression white kids assume you're good at math forgetting or not learning native language mention of mangoes perpetual foreigner trope namedrops traumatic event in native country "mother" and "father" instead of "mom" and "dad" ending is Learning To Accept Yourself metaphor involving a bird clear sense of self- loathing metaphor involving a fish
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self-portrait as [figure from native country's mythology or history]
italicized anglicized word in native language
metaphor involving fruit
cultural or language barrier between narrator and family
metaphor involving a body of water
elementary schoolers hate the food your parents make
writer lives in the bay area
relies on parents' trauma in immigration
sonics of native language vs. english
"motherland," "mother tongue," etc.
at least partially plagiarizes someone else
metaphor involving a celestial object
emotional distance with parents
racial microaggression
white kids assume you're good at math
forgetting or not learning native language
mention of mangoes
perpetual foreigner trope
namedrops traumatic event in native country
"mother" and "father" instead of "mom" and "dad"
ending is Learning To Accept Yourself
metaphor involving a bird
clear sense of self-loathing
metaphor involving a fish
