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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The best part of The Farewell for me was that it touched on diaspora in general — Chinese-Americans but also Chinese-Japanese. Increasingly I don’t like the Asian-American identity because it focuses too much on Americanness. I am more interested in Asian diaspora in general.
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that was one of the most compelling aspects of the farewell in college i spent a semester in singapore and met a ton of diaspora kids whose families immigrated between asian countries—i’d never seen a character like that in an american film before
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