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Samuel Kingsley
Dae Hyun is Daniel's dad. He's a private and quiet man who emigrated from South Korea with his young wife, Min Soo. He decided to leave Korea when he realized that taking over the family crab-fishing business would keep his family in poverty. With the help of a cousin in America, Dae Hyun opened a black hair care store in Harlem, which has allowed him to comfortably support Min Soo and their two sons, Charlie and Daniel. Dae Hyun keeps his impoverished past a secret from his sons, as he believes that poverty is somehow contagious and even hearing about it might infect them. Instead, he insists that both his sons go to Harvard, which he believes is the best school, and become doctors. When Daniel admits he doesn't want to be a doctor, Dae Hyun threatens to withdraw all financial assistance and later makes good on this promise. Dae Hyun is extremely proud of his South Korean heritage, but he is also deeply racist—even though he operates a store that caters to the black community, he thinks very little of his customers and is openly racist to Natasha. Daniel admits that he loves his father, but Natasha can tell that he's ashamed of him as well.
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Chapter 8
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In the end, she chose both. Korean and American. American and Korean.
So they would know where they were from.
So they would know where they were going.
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Chapter 46
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America's not really a melting pot. It's more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies.
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Chapter 69
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I was so surprised by that. I thought I knew everything about my mom—about both of them, really—but here was this secret history I didn't know about. I asked her why she stopped and she waved her hand in the air like she was wiping the years away.
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Chapter 113
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"My parents are immigrants. They moved to this country for a better life. They work all the time so my brother and I can have the American Dream. Nowhere in the American Dream does it say you can skip college and become a starving artist."
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"Yes," I say. "He would." But not because he's evil. And not because he's a Stereotypical Korean Parent. But because he can't see past his own history to let us have ours.
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Chapter 122
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"What I care about is you, and I'm sure that love is enough to overcome all the bullshit. And it is bullshit. All the handwringing. All the talk about cultures clashing or preserving cultures and what will happen to the kids. All of it is one hundred percent pure, unadulterated bullshit, and I just refuse to care."
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Chapter 8
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In the end, she chose both. Korean and American. American and Korean.
So they would know where they were from.
So they would know where they were going.
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Chapter 46
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America's not really a melting pot. It's more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies.
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Chapter 69
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I was so surprised by that. I thought I knew everything about my mom—about both of them, really—but here was this secret history I didn't know about. I asked her why she stopped and she waved her hand in the air like she was wiping the years away.
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Chapter 113
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"My parents are immigrants. They moved to this country for a better life. They work all the time so my brother and I can have the American Dream. Nowhere in the American Dream does it say you can skip college and become a starving artist."
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"Yes," I say. "He would." But not because he's evil. And not because he's a Stereotypical Korean Parent. But because he can't see past his own history to let us have ours.
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Chapter 122
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"What I care about is you, and I'm sure that love is enough to overcome all the bullshit. And it is bullshit. All the handwringing. All the talk about cultures clashing or preserving cultures and what will happen to the kids. All of it is one hundred percent pure, unadulterated bullshit, and I just refuse to care."
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