What do people ask Tan Le about? Why do you think they ask that?
Why did Tan Le’s father stay in Vietnam?
What stars did Tan Le see from the boat?
What made the apple Tan Le had so special?
What's your brightest childhood memory?
What kind of people lived in the suburb Tan Le settled in?
What was the character of the English language Tan Le was exposed to in her neighborhood?
How does Tan Le describe her feeling of being racially abused?
Do you think life is a journey or a destination?
What was the speaker’s job in the family? What made it possible for her do it so well?
What were Tan Le’s mother occupations? What one of them helped her mother to learn about?
Why does Tan Le say that she lived in parallel worlds?
Have you ever experienced the impostor syndrome?
Has Tan Lee ever overcome the impostor syndrome?
What reminded Tan Le of her non-belonging even though she was named as the young Australian of the year?
Why was drinking wine particularly confusing for her?
Do you feel yourself being the product of your experiences?
What shapes Tan Le’s identity?
What made the ground they touched in Melbourne for the first time so special?
Why was it important for them to feel it as something special?
How does the sense of identity work for you?
How does the sense of identity work for the speaker?
Why is it important to remember your own identity?
What is identity according to Tan Le?
What is your identity?
What are Tan Le’s current fears?
What does Tan Le’s want to give her children?
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