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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Illustration by Evie De Rubertis

The Name Game

Students of color reflect on how they have assimilated into American culture by changing their given names to more traditionally Western names.
Melody Tang and Alec Rosenthal
March 29, 2021

Late in her junior year, Kimberly Wang ’21 arrived at the Upper School to take her SAT Subject Test. She felt extremely nervous, but her stress for the exam was outweighed by an awkward situation. Instead...

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