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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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 haven’t totally sorted it out, but the way i want to frame it is like: - uniqueness isn’t actually zero sum - white people strive to be special but if they’re successful it doesn’t reflect on the race - the things that make you unique don’t have to be *in spite of* being asian
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I think where I'm at right now is uniqueness isn't zero sum locally, but it is globally? like everyone is super special to their parents but on average (and definitionally) most people are pretty basic
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and yeah I think the `doesn't have to be unique in spite of being asian` has been the hard part. making yourself unique has to be counter to something on reflection it's amusing that things I did to rebel (e.g., raves) were just a different shape, same flavor
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@wesyang puts it pretty well in https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/race-quotas-and-class-privilege-at-harvard …pic.twitter.com/GRlj0ZyqGD
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Replying to @choosy_mom @wesyang
given how much of my formative years was devoted to the college application process... this gave me a lot to think about
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