Asian Americans should be encouraged to embrace and celebrate their identities in America
Explanation:
"My dream... is for our country to become a place where a cameo like mine would go completely unnoticed. And to see every third-grade teacher tell his or her students, 'Keep your name. You don't have to change a thing.'" ( Paragraph 24)
Kim's experiences caused him to have negative feelings about himself and his culture. This makes the reader understand why it was difficult for Kim to build his identity, which he is so attached to today.
Explanation:
This question is about "Hello, My Name Is ____" by Jason Kim. In this work Kim shows how his experiences as an Asian American made him ashamed of his ancestry and felt culturally isolated, for several years. Kim tells how desperately he wished he were not Asian and how it took a long time and a long journey of self-knowledge and self-acceptance for him to be able to build the identity he has today and that makes him so comfortable with himself, with his culture and with its positioning around race and descendants.
His speech was pivotal because it brought civil rights and the call for African-American rights and freedom to the forefront of Americans' consciousness. It is estimated that over 250,000 people attended the march, which also received a great deal of national and international media attention.
