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Karen - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Struggle with identity = not Chinese, not Thai
  - - - Father's first time traveling outside is to the states
        Always tells the story of China back then vs development in the US (visiting Walmart)
- - - - Spanish teacher always curious about Chinese culture
        Eg. me recommending Hangzhou rivers to visit & Din Tai Fung for xiaolongbao
- - - - Feel ridiculous when I don't understand their slang/what they are talking about = forced to pretend I do
        
        Struggle with identity = not Chinese, not Thai
  - - - Adding extra letters to the end of letters in texts / ending with naa or khaa
      - Rarely saying no, instead "it's ok"
- - - - Tried to treat my red eye that was caused by contacts by massage & 针灸 spots on my hand
      - Chinese name was determined by a "future reader"
        羽（yu）：feather symbolizes that I will travel and drift around the world a lot
      - Contrasting to their view I prefer science & western medicine for more urgent fixes
      - I always got hordeolum when I was young. We first went to the western doctor and she squeezed the puss out of it leaving a scar on the bottom of my that is still here to this day. After we went to the Chinese doctor and he prescribed herbal medicine, the one on the other eye ended up disappearing after a week
    - - Grandma's death
      - Aunt's religious inclination