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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.
“The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act—the process of reason—must be performed by each man alone.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“to someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return”
― Flights
― Flights
“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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“......cut us off from our families, our history. So we made it our own place - Chinatown. A place for preservation and self-preservation; give them what they feel what's right, is safe; make it fit the idea of what is out there..Chinatown and indeed being chinese is and always has been, from the very beginning a construction,a performance of features, gestures, culture and exoticism, invention/reinvention of stylization.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.”
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