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The Importance of Being Authentic
"I don't want to make it seem like we come from the exact same background. Like I think there's obviously a difference there." "You've just always been so authentic, so open in ways that I've always been very self-protective," she says. When they talk about being one among a few South Asian families in the South, they emphasize the similarities. But when they start to peel the layers of the differences between them and the nuances of their backgrounds and their respective family cultures, the differences become more manifest. What they admire, what they envy, what they compete about, what they hid, what they long for, and what they share.