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As thousands across L.A. County undergo the process of debris removal in the burn scars, our reporter shares her family’s experience.
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The new season of LAist Studios' WILD podcast is a fictional rom-com set in Southeast L.A. Sunset Boulevard becomes a character in one of the episodes this season. Here's WILD host Erick Galindo's ode to the iconic Hollywood thoroughfare.
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When you grow up in a multicultural “Chinese bubble” in a diaspora that’s divided culturally, politically, linguistically — and your family is no different.
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What it’s like to be “caught between dueling narratives” as a kid when the U.S. has invaded your parents’ homeland, and your people are being blamed for a tragedy they weren’t responsible for. Twenty years later, it still stings.
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When I re-entered the country, I was greeted by that "Welcome to the USA" sign. It opened my perspective on the way I defined home.
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The new season of LAist Studios' WILD podcast is a rom-com set in Southeast L.A. Which made me think back to those '90s rom-coms of yesteryear that I grew up on — but looked a lot different from my life.
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When you grow up in Koreatown with parents from Oaxaca, speaking Spanish at home and learning Hangul with friends at school, equally at home with memelas and bibimbap, you develop a distinctly L.A. sense of what “American” is.
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Even though I’m not technically Mexican American on paper, I had to face the fact that I was Americanized more than anything. It was a hard realization for me as a DACA recipient.
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I took the leap to file for advance parole and leave the country as an undocumented immigrant and DACA recipient.
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When you feel invisible in the country you were born in — and even more so in the country that you adopt.
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During WWII, Japanese American servicemen from Hawaii formed a baseball team that drew local fans nearly everywhere they played. My father was one of them.
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When you come here determined to make it, with only “shoes with holes in them, a t-shirt, old pants, and big dreams.”
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My good friend used advance parole to leave the country and return. Now it's my turn to go back "home."
