The juxtaposed barrier between my Chinese/American manners

[jervispendleton]

Today my cousin just reminded me that our grandpa is dying. It's rather funny how I totally overloooked that his annual trip to Hong Kong was earlier than usual. It just flew over my head. The day he left with my grandmother was the night I came back. I would say it was my fault for not visiting them two weeks prior the first time I did come back.

Comments

[healie]

(joking) You speak good old american? Aight! What-up, Boo-ya!! Yo mama

[jervispendleton]

I'm sorry to hear that Healie. I do remember reading a bit about your family circumstances, of what you did share. I think a family is what everyone makes the shared effort to put into. I think in Europe people have great family bonds, not that I'm trying to generalize Americans. It's probably the water here.
And for some reason, I never consider myself to be an American. I don't think I'm Chinese either. I'm just me. I have Chinese blood, was born in Hong Kong which was British ruled(so am I British too?), lived there for 8 years, and here now I've lived in the states for 11 years and learned a lot in America especially through my teenage years.