Tainted Yellow

Language, Chinese in particular, was the most important skill to master above all else. Since the age of nine, my parents began to drive me to Chinese school every Saturday morning; it was hell. I the type of person who likes to sleep in on weekends, but that was no longer possible because of classes. I wanted to learn Chinese, but I was only nine years old and I was lazy. Regardless of how much my parents wanted me to go to Chinese school, I still refused to go. I wanted to learn Chinese by studying abroad, but that was impossible accomplish especially for a nine year old kid. When I lived in Hong Kong, I was fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin. It was not until when we moved back to the United States where I had lost my ability to speak Cantonese. I did not have the desire to continue to learn Chinese anymore; practicing how to speak and write English was already too big of a task for me.…