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<v Narrator>My family moved here from Asia</v>

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back in the 70s when I was two years old.

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When my parents came here they had little to no money.

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They spoke little to no English.

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We lived with my father's cousin in a small little

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apartment in Chinatown.

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I wish I could say there were great memories

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of Chinatown but there actually weren't.

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I think because of the age at two coming here

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and going to school with everyone else

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I felt different.

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I didn't look American.

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Yet I sounded American.

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The children didn't understand that.

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And so they definitely let me know.

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I was made fun of for speaking too clearly

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or I spoke like an American and not a Chinese person.

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The things they were teaching me in school were different

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then what I was getting at home.

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Chinatown at the time didn't feel good to me.

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I didn't want to be Chinese.

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I wanted to be anything but.

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I went to preschool at Commodore Stockton Elementary

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and I also went to Cumberland Chinese School.

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And I had to come here on Saturday.

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I know.

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<v ->That's the weekend.</v>

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<v ->(laughing)</v>

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And I would fake a stomachache

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<v ->(laughing)</v>

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<v ->And say I didn't wanna go.</v>

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If I could just tell my five year old self

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"Don't fake that stomachache, suck it up and learn it,

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because that's who you are, you will appreciate it someday".

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So now, looking back,

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I don't feel that way about Chinatown at all.

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I can't tell you specifically what the shift was,

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but I can tell you what the influence was.

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And I would never imagine to tell you,

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that it was through work.

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Believe it or not, it's through Comcast,

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that actually changed my perception.

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(drum beats)

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Back in 2016 Comcast helped to launch

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the Asian Pacific Americans Employee Resource Group.

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I was proud

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to be recruited to be in an Asian club

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and I never thought as I was walking through the streets

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of Chinatown back in the 80s

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that I would ever feel that way.

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No way.

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And from there doing the work, actually feeling this pride

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to empower other people,

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my colleagues, to have that sense of pride at being Chinese

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and being Chinese-American, living here ...

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I took that very seriously.

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Without even realizing how much that differed

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from what I wanted or believed years ago.

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And now I'm actually a co-lead of that APAERG

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and I'm so proud of doing that kind of work.

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<v ->Are you all ready?</v>

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<v ->Ready!</v>

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But the commitment that Comcast shows

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goes beyond those internal resource groups.

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We're a connection company, we're a storytelling company.

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We entertain people through their own cultures,

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their traditions and I love being able

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to work for a company that can do that.

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We're here in the Chinese community in Chinatown

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to celebrate Chinese new year

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and be a part of the parade.

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<v ->(cheering)</v>

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<v Narrator>It's important for me to preserve</v>

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the Asian culture

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for my own family because of my two little girls.

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I want them to be able to celebrate who they really are.

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And I'm so grateful for companies like Comcast

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to work with employees like myself to say

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"I see you

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so let's go share it, let's go tell people who you are".

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And at the parade and things that we do

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through Xfinity and Comcast,

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I'm showing them

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really loudly tonight.

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(chinese speaking)

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(happy chinese music)