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As a child I had trouble accepting my background. I was exposed to two different atmospheres and learned to adapt to both of them. One on the other hand, I got attached to one and almost lost who I truly am. I never gave myself the chance to understand my own culture until I started college. I've learned that my ancestors history has been completely destroyed and how I don't have the privilege to say "My country". Besides that, this piece I drawn represents how I've felt in the past and how I was insecure of being a Hmong child. I had to let go of my culture in order to truly blend in with the crowd.
Throughout the last two years, I've come to accept my own culture and regret not wanting to learn more about it.
I finished this piece as an assignment from a previous class and unexpectedly on the same week I found out a group of people, my people were suffering. A Hmong Idol and three fathers have passed by a shooting. Even if I did not know them personally, my heart goes out to them and their families.
