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Priya Singh is the Chief Strategy Officer of Stanford Health Care and Senior Associate Dean of Stanford Medicine. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hers. View more opinion at CNN.he views expressed here are hers. (CNN) My journey began 8,290 miles away, in India. I grew up in Mumbai, completed my studies, and first set foot in the United States as a young woman in my 20s. When I boarded that flight to California, I did so with my sister's advice booming in my head: wear long sleeves to hide the henna ink from a recent wedding. But she was really making a bigger point: hide who you are, because they won't understand you. My sister's advice was jarring but well-intentioned. The truth was, I didn't even need the warning: already, for months, standing in front of my mirror practicing each night, I'd worked to stifle my Indian accent. It was the start of my journey as a performer --learning when and how to shed my identity, and trying to anticipate when it was safe … [Read more...] about For immigrants like me, the ‘Great Pretend’ doesn’t work anymore

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