I am completely serious when I say that the whole genre of chronicling toxic abusive 1%er families is seriously missing Asian-American representation Crazy Rich Asians was barely a start (and wasn't about rich Asian-*Americans*)https://twitter.com/lsirikul/status/1334749597160198144 …
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I do not, to be clear, come from Asian-American wealth My family always did have a certain proximity to wealth, though, that kind of defined my dad's experience in this country and my own shitty childhood
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(I feel weird about saying this but even though my life was about as different as that of the Youngers as possible, A Raisin in the Sun caught me in the feels incredibly hard when I read it in school I seriously cried)
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Replying to @_carmen_dioxide
I guess the best way to put it is that I would have a much earlier time understanding and dealing with the constant frustration and anger that characterized my dad's entire personality if he were played by Sidney Poitier
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The fact that Walter Lee is just this unstable roiling cauldron of bitterness because he sees so clearly the life he's supposed to have and doesn't "Bitter? Man I'm a volcano! Bitter? I'm a giant surrounded by ants!" Etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I hope your dad girded himself against the Willies and Bobos of his world, in any case.
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Ha ha nope That's why I made the connection in the first place, the sketchy get rich quick business deal that fucked up my sister's future
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Ah, I’m so sorry! Did not mean to pick at that scab!
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It's fine, that's why I brought it up
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