By Dr. Jon Gaudio

Whenever my patient, Frank, comes to see me, I sit and listen to his stories about growing up. He was an Italian kid in Hartford who went to Catholic school with mostly Irish kids. But because he was Italian and his parents barely spoke English, Frank felt different.

When the teacher asked the kids about the food they eat, kids around the room said things like "hot dogs." Frank didn't even know what a hot dog was, and when he said "pasta fazul," the other kids laughed.

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