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not to play the fucking race card but this is a great example of what feels 100% fake to me about the recent wave of support for asian-americans. i didn't mention this in the thread but obviously the fact that my parents and i are chinese is a huge part of the picture here

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Jul 16, 2021

sometimes your parents lift you completely out of your native culture and society to move to america to chase their dreams of making enough money that you never have to worry about anything ever and uh this is where that ends up and you can try to understand or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

hm looks like the first tweet was a bad tweet, i did a really bad job of saying what i meant. i mean it's relevant to the story that chinese parents give you money as their way of showing they care and it's relevant that i grew up basically american and didn't absorb that

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Jul 16, 2021

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what i grew up absorbing was that money was vaguely bad and you shouldn't have too much of it which, y'know, *gestures broadly*

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Critter

@BecomingCritter

Jul 16, 2021

This make me want to Run an Experimwnt

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this was the part that was most unrelatable to me, way more than having $100k. my parent providing for me is an expression of their love is so obvious to me, it was crazy that you had to trip acid to realize it. do americans not think like that?

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@smallkewlhuman

Jul 16, 2021

no. lots of american media strongly pushes the idea that love is about telling people you love them and spending time with them.

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if only there was some way of telling that your parents giving you 100 grand was some kind of care!

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@khanombang

Jul 17, 2021

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When you said, "Not to play the fucking race card but this is a great example of what feels 100% fake to me about the recent wave of support for asian-americans," you actually meant, "It's relevant to the story that Chinese parents give you money?" What? You are hurting my brain.