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A much needed book for a world fueled on scoring systems defined / imposed by institutions and bureaucracies. Perhaps ten years too late after social media was created.
I stumbled on Nguyen's writing from his previous book about game design based on g ...more "
Asians lack presence. Asians take up apologetic space. We don’t even have enough presence to be considered real minorities. We’re not racial enough to be token. We’re so post-racial we’re silicon.
This is exactly the constant struggle of being 'asian'. Especially true for first-generationers. You will just have to constantly justify your own existence; strive to be excellent, to be visible, to be worthy.
“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.”
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“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“He is asking to be treated like an American. A real american. Cuz honestly, when you think about American, what color do you see? white? black? We (the Chinese) have been here 200 years....the German, the Dutch, the Italian, they came here in the turn of century; they are Americans. Why doesn't this face ("yellow") register as American? Is it because we make the story too complicated?”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“to someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return”
― Flights
― Flights
“This is it. The root of it all. The real history of yellow people in America. Two hundred years of being perpetual foreigners.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
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