By Kristen Rogers, CNN, November 20, 2020
Roisin and Danny Huang took their 6-year-old daughter to cultural celebrations and dim sum restaurants in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, cultivating her Chinese identity and cultural pride.
To Roisin, who is White, and her husband, who is Chinese and first-generation American, that was an important part of their parenting. Despite some internalized racism their daughter was experiencing, she had come to accept and celebrate the Chinese part of her identity and culture.
In the week after Chinese New Year in late January, Huang’s daughter attended school dressed in a traditional outfit to celebrate. Several weeks later in March, one of her teachers showed the kindergarten students a news segment on handwashing to prevent contracting the coronavirus that came from China — without the context that people of Chinese and Asian descent weren’t to blame.
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