This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is our American stories.

And our next story is about a man named Bruce Wang. He's Chinese born, a college student in Texas,

and he learned a southern accent by watching, of all things, Duck Dynasty, and got a job as a cowboy on a ranch.

As you're about to hear, Bruce may be Chinese-born, but he's all-American.

Here's Bruce Wang to tell his story.

Hi, friends and partners, it's been my great honor to be invited by Mr. Greg Engler

to be on the show and talk about my experience here in America.

My name is Sheba Wang, but I also go with beers.

When school is on, I am a graduate student at Texas Tech University,

but when there's no school, I am a feedlock cowboy. As some of y'all might not expect that I am actually from China,

and it's kind of rare to see an Asian cowboy across the country,

well, if you come to West Texas, if you see one, that might be me. I am from Quimbing, Yunnan, Southwest China,

and the city where I came from has the nickname of the City of Eternal Spring, meaning that the

weather in my hometown is always like spring all year around.

So in a sense, I was a southerner in China that came to the States and became a

southerner again. But this transformation was not as smooth as some people might assume, because no matter where you live, life is not always easy.

About eight years ago, I said goodbye to my parents, got on an airplane, and then came here to the states.

Set my foot on Soul of America.

The very first state that I went to for college was the state of Oklahoma.

And we got on this minivan from the airport and the driver just took us to the campus.

And I know on the map it said Oklahoma City.

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