by Nan Ding ’14
Originally presented during all-school assembly on Tuesday, May 15, 2012.
Hey, guys. I’m Nan. And I’m an Asian.
Suppose all of you guys don’t know me yet, but you know I’m from the old and mysterious Eastern hemisphere.
So, you guys may think, well….
I’m quiet
Good at science
A brilliant math student
Short
Not very athletic
Wearing glasses
Well, yeah. Most of them are true for me. But those are just the stereotypes of Asian people.
Recently, I went to the Asian American conference and many Asians sort of reached an agreement that—Americans are kind of weird.