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i have traveled and lived in many parts of the world and there is always a constant in me that stays the same although the places change or alter, that is being cambodian-american. when i settled in portland, oregon in 2006, it was a blessing to hear that portland includes asian-american or minority issues in major media venues, especially on public radio. 'crossing east' was the first radio program that led me to reach out to the cambodian identity in me when the cambodian-american community of oregon was mentioned as being a nonprofit in the portland area.

portland does foster ethnic community growth, unity, and empowerment through media and politician's awareness and portland should continue and increase its efforts.

just as science identifies plants and animals in many different class-order-family-genus, etc., i am happy to be identified as 'asian-american' and then broken down further into region, countries, etc. for me, asian-american, southeast asian - american, cambodian-american, buddhst-american, etc.

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