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I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.

— Andrew Cherng

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China.

— Tess Gerritsen

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

— Yayoi Kusama

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

— Robert Fogel

I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.

— Kevin Kwan

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

— Yoko Ono

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

— Adam Driver

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

— John Burnham Schwartz

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I'd moved seven times with my family, my father's engineering work taking us to places as far-flung as Bay City, Texas, and Wolnae-Ri in South Korea.

— Susanna Kearsley

I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.

— Wong Kar-wai

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.

— Rebecca MacKinnon