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Why I stopped believing in ‘putting my head down’ and assimilating as an Asian American | Opinion

Less than 24 hours after I came to the U.S., my name had changed to Jason. I would not come to realize what I lost that day until decades later.

Jason Han, M.D., a cardiothoracic resident at Penn and a frequent writer for the Inquirer at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine in University City on Friday, October 9, 2020.
Jason Han, M.D., a cardiothoracic resident at Penn and a frequent writer for the Inquirer at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine in University City on Friday, October 9, 2020.Read moreYONG KIM / Staff Photographer