Is Assimilation a Thing That Should Not Be Celebrated?

"I'm not trying to lead it anywhere. I'm just genuinely fascinated," she says of her accent. "Assimilation is a thing that should not be celebrated in the sense that it should theoretically be neither here nor there." She works at a domestic violence organization, specifically working with Asian and Pacific Islanders. 'But at the same time, I do like, I can relate to them on certain levels'