Emily Chu: growing into your roots

As a child trying to deal with the feelings of disorientation that come from the input of multiple cultures and the social alienation that comes from living in a culture not her own, Emily Chu responded as anyone might: by separating herself from the source of her “Otherness” as much as possible.

‘I pushed away a lot of my Chinese culture as a kid … I barely acknowledged it,’ Chu says.

(Published in CULTURS online magazine)