In this year's Asian Heritage Month blog series, we
honour role models who have had a profound impact on our lives. The
title "Model Citizen" invokes a reclaiming of a term that
is often used to label certain minority individuals as aspirational
based on stereotypes and assumptions. In this series, you will read
stories about real people who have been real role models to
us.
For this year's blog series, I was committed to providing
you with an entry about my role model; however, the reality is that
I have never had one individual person that I can point to and
unequivocally proclaim to be my role model. Rather, I am of the
mindset that internalizing certain qualities and traits from the
people that I find admirable is more lucrative in helping me work
towards who I aspire to be in my personal and professional
life.
