Word: lucarelli
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...another's stories. So when Mona Rahman, 24, tells the other five people at a New York City dinner table about how her superstrict parents never let her sleep over at friends' houses, there are chuckles of recognition. There are equally empathetic, if more sober, nods when Grace Chang Lucarelli, 32, speaking in a soft Texan drawl, recalls "people making fun of me" because she was one of the few Asian Americans in her town. The people around the table grew up in rural Texas, suburban New Jersey, upstate New York, small-town Virginia and the real O.C. But they...
...there are certain things you don't have to explain?cultural nuances, how our families work, our roles within our families." Yet 40% of Asian Americans ages 25 to 34 marry people of other ethnicities, compared with 12% of African Americans in the same age group. Both Grace Chang Lucarelli and her sister married white men. Although their Taiwanese parents weren't pleased at first, Lucarelli says they understood the odds. "They took us to Texas," she says, of her upbringing in the small town of Terrell. "What did they expect...
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