It's not that she didn't know the "correct" way to say the word, it's that in her community growing up that's the way the word was said and she was uncomfortable changing it
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Guess I dreamed that too. Of course I discovered I'm not really one of them, either. But in Manhattan 80s, I had a chance.
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And learning that these people were, in fact, NOT my people was a pretty bitter fucking pill to swallow As was learning that the cosmopolitan, bourgeois Chinese-Americans weren't really my people either
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Yeah they've all got parent's credit cards backing up that lifestyle. I definitely didn't!
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