I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.
Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 while his Yemeni father was studying at New Mexico State University.
I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.
I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.
I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Though born in Los Angeles, U.S.A., I am a typical Tamil girl.
Other Asian actors, especially American-born actors, sometimes shy away from immigrant roles.
I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.
My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'
