I focus on Asian American topics. It might seem irrelevant to
people from Asian countries, but the truth is that people from Asia are like the lifeblood of Asian America. I think more than half of all Asian Americans are foreign-born. So Asian America is likely to always be in some weird cultural limbo that I wish it could break out of.So I hope that people who move here understand that once you give up your old country’s passport, you’re no longer a Nihonjin*, or a Hanguk-salam, or a Zhongguoren. You’re now an American. In fact, you instantly become part of Asian America the moment you move here. You’re now absorbed in America’s racial dynamics in which the details of where you’re from don’t really matter. So you end up having a role in helping define whatever Asian America is.
* A Japanese national, a Korean national, a Chinese national respectively
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