![]() ![]() On why he didn't want to pursue a career in traditional French fine dining The older I've gotten, the more I'm moved by all they had to sacrifice and went through to give the family everything they needed. ![]() ![]() I can't imagine how hard that must have been. He would visit me occasionally, but he hated it because of the trauma he had living there, as a kid in his early 20s that didn't speak English in the early '60s. Or even from my dad who lived in New York. My parents wound up in Northern Virginia in the early '70s. I'm remorseful not trying to understand that at a younger age and what they lived and the experiences they had and just the cultural difference they had to overcome. I remember my dad's mother staying with us for a short period of time, and how mean she was, and how frugal she lived, and how I just was not just embarrassed about the food - I was embarrassed by how were raised, and I didn't want to be like that. ![]() When I was a kid, I was just so angry at why they couldn't raise us like normal white America. On being embarrassed by his Korean immigrant parents when he was young and wanting to assimilate into his white community ![]()
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