I was browsing my Twitter and I saw a post from novelist, Celeste Ng sharing her essay in The Cut about being harassed for marrying a non-Asian man.
I am a Chinese-Canadian woman married to a Chinese-Canadian man and we have a daughter. So as the acronym goes, we are AFAM (Asian Female, Asian Man).
As our daughter grows up, I want her to feel confident in choosing whoever she wants to date, figuring out what she needs, wants and deserves in a relationship, communicating with her partner with honesty and respect, trusting her instincts, and standing up for what’s right.
I know I cannot control how society evolves as polarized as it may become. And obviously, I cannot control who she falls for (and who she doesn’t fall for).
And one of these stories is sharing with her why I married her dad, explaining that it was not about racial purity or to prevent “cultural genocide” but rather it was for a simple, tried-and-true concept called love.
