“You should take care of others when you can, or else when one day you need help, you will not find a helping hand among 100 people,” he recalled his mother saying.
“As one of the first students to study in the US after World War II, I hoped that everything I did would let Americans realize that Asians weren’t the only ones in need of aid,” Chen said, adding: “I wanted them to know that Taiwanese [immigrants] also knew how to contribute to the betterment of American society.”
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