Mary Chin, an American with Trinidadian and Chinese heritage discusses her mixed background and family heritage, including the cultural differences between Chinese-Trinidadians and Chinese people. Her mother came from a small town in Trinidad and her father came from China but moved to Trinidad and married her mother there. Her grandfather came from Venezuela but moved to Trinidad for political reasons. Her grandmother was Caribbean-Indian, and later remarried a Chinese man after her husband died. Mary was born in New York in 1922 when her parents travelled to the US but her and her family moved back to Trinidad when she was four years old during the Depression due to financial reasons. Since her parents died while she was a child, she was mostly raised by her grandparents. Still, her family associated with the Chinese community in Trinidad. She returned to New York in 1941 to try to help her brother get back into America. Chin got married, had children, and attended college in the United States.