Whether you're first-generation or fifth-generation, the experience of "becoming American" is part of your personal history. Here's where you can share that history.

Featured Portraits from North Carolina

John Wei
Home: North Carolina
Year of birth: 1946
Family background: From Yanling County, Hunan province, China, and Taiwan. Arrived in America 1978

"At a cultural center in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the Eastern Coast, a melody was drifting from a group of children: no matter where you come from, we call America our home; as Chinese Americans, we all learn Chinese together no matter where you come from…." >>more

Shuming Li
Home: North Carolina
Year of birth: 1976
Family background: Shanghai, China. Arrived in America August 2000

I came to the US mostly because of my curiosity: I wanted to see the world! Also, I wanted to leave my over-protective parents. I had no idea where North Carolina was or anything about it. I was too young to realize how many challenges and changes would be in the future. >>more