When I was 15, Dad left the family for good. I didn't want to believe it at the time, but the fact was that he deserted us kids and abandoned Mom after 25 years of marriage. — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
To our American neighbors, we were model immigrants, a poster family. They told us so. My father had a law degree, my mother was on her way to becoming a doctor, and my siblings and I got good grades and… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emptiness I was trying to… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
I think there has been a long-running notion in the West that Asia was a continent of people that were really conquerable. That people… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
When I was 15, Dad left the family for good. I didn't want to believe it at the time, but the fact was that… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with. — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
I do remember instances where girls would just fawn over me because they liked that I was different - exotic - to them. And… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
“First was the abandonment of our native language and our unquestioned embrace of English, even though for my parents that abandonment meant cutting themselves… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
We all, to some degree, absorb the mythologies around us, our vision refracted by the prisms of our particular time and place. — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
To our American neighbors, we were model immigrants, a poster family. They told us so. My father had a law degree, my mother was… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next, followed by three more siblings in rapid succession. — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
