Since then, Kim said she stopped speaking Korean to her parents in public and "was so ashamed and hated" that she was Asian. She added that she had been spit on in public before as well.

Welcome to life as an Asian-American.

This is not an uncommon story. Don't want to bring homemade lunches because the kimchi smells too much, want a completely Americanized first name, want to hang out with white/black/latino friends, want to assimilate 100% as hard as possible.

And then you hit your 20s, grow up mentally and realize you have a yearning and curiosity and maybe even an identity crisis for the aspects of your appearance and ethnic background that you can't just whitewash away. I'm glad Chloe came to grips with all of that a lot younger than most people do.