Asian Heritage

In The Accidental Asian by Eric Liu, Liu is faced with the complexity of his heritage. Liu is a second-generation Chinese American. Throughout Liu’s essays he speaks of the disadvantages of being an Asian American and how in his life he dealt with it. Liu also speaks of his family and their values of keeping their heritage alive without his parents being overbearing and discriminating towards Liu’s choices in life. In Eric Liu’…

…for sure and that is that he will raise his children with the same values that his parents had with him. “I only want to raise my offspring as I myself was raised. It just happens that I was raised with great latitude - to preserve, discard, combine, and create. My parents may not have realized the danger of such a course. The danger was that I would never look back. But I do.”(pg.197)