#asian-american-heritage

#asian-american-heritage

Tagore was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize of any sort and also the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. 'India has two aspects,' Tagore wrote. 'In one she is the householder, in the other a wandering ascetic.'

"For the first time, in 1990, May was officially designated as a month honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage, but the term Asian American remains shrouded by cultural misunderstanding."