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Transcription: [00:02:10]
{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
I just came here 8 years ago. I was not born here and all my family is still in Korea and my old friends are in Korea, and I, um, when I came - 2003, and I was thinking I was just a tourist or traveller

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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
and also, that time I was a student. Then I was thinking, like, okay I'm just here to study and then, 2, 3, 4 years and finally right now it’s 8 years and then I realised I'm not really comfortable in Korea either.
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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
I'm not, sometimes, comfortable in America either.
{SPEAKER name="Jasmine Fernandez"}
{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
[[laughter]]
{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
I think 'Ah, wow, I am really in between!', and maybe my life is just a journey forever.
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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
Um, if I'm maybe born in here, maybe I have a different identity? Uh, questioning or issuing because maybe I, if I'm born here, if I'm really Asian -American, maybe I think, I ... I am American, but I look like Asian? Maybe it's a different identity question?
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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
but I came here when I was 20 - only 20. So, my identity is pretty much Asian. My culture is Asian and my whole: my custom, culture, everything is Asian and I wasn't that comfortable here, the first time. So, now I think 'What does Asian-American mean?'
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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
Uh, well like, maybe I can answer. Life, uh, it is uh, [[deciding on wording]], well, journey and travelling all the time for me, so maybe there is no one, exact definition for Asian-American? Maybe I am part of Asian-American culture? Maybe a lot of people feel like me? Yeah
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{SPEAKER name="Jasmine Fernandez"}
Well, since we still have time, I wanted to ask