Read the first three paragraphs of "Two kinds."
My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to
be in America. You could open a restaurant. You could
work for the government and get good retirement. You
could buy a house with almost no money down. You could
become rich. You could become instantly famous
"Of course you can be a prodigy, too," my mother told me
when I was nine. "You can be best anything. What does
Auntie Lindo know? Her daughter, she is only best tricky."
acceptance
independence
self-expression
self-fulfillment
America was where all my mother's hopes lay. She had
come here in 1949 after losing everything in China: her
mother and father, her family home, her first husband, and
two daughters, twin baby girls. But she never looked back
with regret. There were so many ways for things to get
better

Based on this passage, what US value has the narrator's
mother embraced?

acceptance
independence
self-expression
self-fulfillment