Asian youth in North America are performing identities instead of owning them. A closer look at generational rebellion, cultural confusion, and the cost of mimicry.
You raise issues that you’ve, I think faced yourself. Your quest, understood by anyone else, is in no way nor valuable food for thought. That’s what I like about your writing - whether I understand, or can relate to it or not, is immaterial. I’m not Asian, thus my not understanding. But with your writing, I can learn. Gives me food for thought and a mission to try to empathise. Hoping that makes. 🇨🇦
I think trying on the trappings, the bits and pieces (micro appropriations?) of other cultures is one of the inevitable, unavoidable rites of passage for youth in a multicultural world, especially if seen as transgressive. I hardly think it culturally misguided. The adoption of black culture was / is certainly not exclusive to Asians. White dudes embarrass(ed) themselves, too, looking even more the fools. But being a fool is part of growing up, out of and / or into who we want to be. Or don’t. I don’t in the end understand your point, I guess, as either exclusive or culturally wayward.
You raise issues that you’ve, I think faced yourself. Your quest, understood by anyone else, is in no way nor valuable food for thought. That’s what I like about your writing - whether I understand, or can relate to it or not, is immaterial. I’m not Asian, thus my not understanding. But with your writing, I can learn. Gives me food for thought and a mission to try to empathise. Hoping that makes. 🇨🇦
Need to edit better CR. My apologies. That was to have been “NOT understood by anyone else, is in no way NOT valuable food for thought.” Def my bad. 😥
I think trying on the trappings, the bits and pieces (micro appropriations?) of other cultures is one of the inevitable, unavoidable rites of passage for youth in a multicultural world, especially if seen as transgressive. I hardly think it culturally misguided. The adoption of black culture was / is certainly not exclusive to Asians. White dudes embarrass(ed) themselves, too, looking even more the fools. But being a fool is part of growing up, out of and / or into who we want to be. Or don’t. I don’t in the end understand your point, I guess, as either exclusive or culturally wayward.