'Immigrants from all over the world have moulded modern Britain,' angela_hui writes 'We must humanise migrants risking everything for a chance at building a new life and remember the reasons why they’re making these perilous journeys in the first place'
I often wonder what my life would be like if my parents hadn’t opened their Chinesein South Wales. Would I have been born in the UK? Would I be writing this article in English? Would I even exist?
For them, opening a Chinese takeaway was a way to financially support themselves and our family. But for me, growing up, I couldn’t help but be terribly embarrassed of being the takeaway kid. The adolescent pressure to fit in, the need to minimise myself and to not kick up a fuss, made it impossible for me by the racial stereotypes that I was forced to navigate as someone of Chinese heritage growing up in the rural South Wales valleys in the 1990s.
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