i was basically the only chinese kid in my midwestern suburb, and over the last several years i think i’ve exorcised a lot of the racial self-resentment i grew up with
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Replying to @choosy_mom
did you do this [exorcism] intentionally? I've found it hard to unbundle racial self-resentment and a desire to be unique/special/etc
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Replying to @chiefofstuffs
fairly intentionally—in college i spent a bunch of time in asia, read a handful of books, wrote about it, and had a couple of race enlightened mentors and yeah, i def relate w the tension between drive for individuality vs. racial acceptance
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I feel this tension a lot as a mixed person. I want that acceptance, but I don’t know if being “Me” will get that acceptance. And then I feel bad for even feeling that, bc it’s like “ugh, another mixed kid feeling insecure, how cliche”
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almost everyone experiences some kind of alienation, but there’s no shame in having feelings that aren’t unique tbh i‘m pretty sure most people don’t have *any* feelings that are 100% originalhttps://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1210238797956304896 …
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