Butterfly Hannah Lee
“Growing up as a Korean-American, I’ve always felt a divide in my personality. Since I am one of the first in my family to be born on American soil, I still feel very much connected to my Korean roots, but at the same time, America is where I grew up and went to school. I’ve always felt out of place, because I felt like I was too American to be Korean, and too Korean to be American. In this poem, I tried to depict the constant struggle between racial and national background that I have gone through.”
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