Status Updates From Minor Feelings: An Asian Am...

Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst enemy. Your only defense is to be hard on yourself, which becomes compulsive, and therefore a comfort, to peck yourself to death. You don’t like how you look, how you sound.

“A fascinating little-known fact about the Korean War is that an American surgeon, David Ralph Millard, stationed there to treat burn victims, invented a double-eyelid surgical procedure to make Asian eyes look western, which he ended up testing on Korean sex workers so they could be more attractive to GIs. Now, it’s the most popular procedure for women in South Korea.”
I definitely did not know this. Jesus.

this is freaking boring….but ooh ocean vuong mention