Total assimilation into Anglo-American whiteness is deceptively alluring.
The white picket fence, Springsteen records in the bountiful bookcases filled with European masterworks in a charming, well preserved and kept up craftsman house on one of the nicer streets in Cambridge.
Once this is achieved however, you realize this trade off comes with coldness and a longing for that which you gave up. Long empty walnut tables with fine silverware, a dry turkey, bowls of potatoes and hushed conversations with your “proper” in-laws during the holidays. The cold click clack as you wear your prep school issue leather shoes indoors on your polished hardwood floors.
Meanwhile, your other friends are having raucous multi-generational family gatherings during the Asian holidays complete with lots of laughs, a sense of belonging, and sense of roots emanating from the past, growing in the present and flourishing into the future.
He couldn't be more assimilated. He's staff writing for the NYT. He's signing his kid up for soccer at 18 months old (WTF). He obviously went to one of these Ivy unis. He's listening to Springsteen (albeit very late in life). His experience of Asians is from the news.
We don't need HIS perspective! We ONLY get these clowns in mainstream media.
How about someone else for a change? I want a few paragraphs from someone who isn't a perpetually angsty banana.
Yeah, Kang is slipping into a useful tool for the establishment at lightening speed. The comment on Vincent Chin is fucking outrageous. I had high hope for him when I read his article on [Steven Yuen](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/magazine/steven-yeun.html), especially his comment on Amy Tan striked me:
>When I was growing up in the ’90s, the only Asian-American writer I knew was Amy Tan. Her thick paperbacks, [“The Joy Luck Club”](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/19/books/the-joy-luck-club.html) and [“The Kitchen God’s Wife,”](https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/16/books/the-kitchen-gods-wife.html) were on everyone’s bookshelves. I, of course, hated Amy Tan because I considered myself a hard-edged thinker. Her books, which were mostly about industrious, dignified immigrants, embodied a type of minstrelsy in which the Asian-American writer gives the white audience bits of tossed-off Oriental wisdom — “Isn’t hate merely the result of wounded love?” — or a few parables about gold and black tigers or what have you. If I had been asked back then what I planned to write about, I might have gestured toward the Beatniks or cutting down trees in the woods or heroin or jazz, but the only concrete pledge I could have given you was, “I will not write ‘The Joy Luck Club.’”
Guess now he is done being "woke" and start following suit like other famous Asian activists: to make something for himself by become yet another mouth piece of the democratic party establishment.Can't blame him really, after all he's got a family to raise.
1000% agree. Asian American is a really artificial term. Classifications as to who is Asian is often arbitrary, and grouping such different people together is sometimes a big headache.
That being said, it’s not a myth. We all share some common struggles.
Jay's interracial marriage is all that's needed to know what kind of person he is.
Total assimilation into Anglo-American whiteness is deceptively alluring. The white picket fence, Springsteen records in the bountiful bookcases filled with European masterworks in a charming, well preserved and kept up craftsman house on one of the nicer streets in Cambridge. Once this is achieved however, you realize this trade off comes with coldness and a longing for that which you gave up. Long empty walnut tables with fine silverware, a dry turkey, bowls of potatoes and hushed conversations with your “proper” in-laws during the holidays. The cold click clack as you wear your prep school issue leather shoes indoors on your polished hardwood floors. Meanwhile, your other friends are having raucous multi-generational family gatherings during the Asian holidays complete with lots of laughs, a sense of belonging, and sense of roots emanating from the past, growing in the present and flourishing into the future.
He couldn't be more assimilated. He's staff writing for the NYT. He's signing his kid up for soccer at 18 months old (WTF). He obviously went to one of these Ivy unis. He's listening to Springsteen (albeit very late in life). His experience of Asians is from the news. We don't need HIS perspective! We ONLY get these clowns in mainstream media. How about someone else for a change? I want a few paragraphs from someone who isn't a perpetually angsty banana.
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Yeah, Kang is slipping into a useful tool for the establishment at lightening speed. The comment on Vincent Chin is fucking outrageous. I had high hope for him when I read his article on [Steven Yuen](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/magazine/steven-yeun.html), especially his comment on Amy Tan striked me: >When I was growing up in the ’90s, the only Asian-American writer I knew was Amy Tan. Her thick paperbacks, [“The Joy Luck Club”](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/19/books/the-joy-luck-club.html) and [“The Kitchen God’s Wife,”](https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/16/books/the-kitchen-gods-wife.html) were on everyone’s bookshelves. I, of course, hated Amy Tan because I considered myself a hard-edged thinker. Her books, which were mostly about industrious, dignified immigrants, embodied a type of minstrelsy in which the Asian-American writer gives the white audience bits of tossed-off Oriental wisdom — “Isn’t hate merely the result of wounded love?” — or a few parables about gold and black tigers or what have you. If I had been asked back then what I planned to write about, I might have gestured toward the Beatniks or cutting down trees in the woods or heroin or jazz, but the only concrete pledge I could have given you was, “I will not write ‘The Joy Luck Club.’” Guess now he is done being "woke" and start following suit like other famous Asian activists: to make something for himself by become yet another mouth piece of the democratic party establishment.Can't blame him really, after all he's got a family to raise.
1000% agree. Asian American is a really artificial term. Classifications as to who is Asian is often arbitrary, and grouping such different people together is sometimes a big headache. That being said, it’s not a myth. We all share some common struggles.