"I’ve spent my life trying to figure out what Asian-ness means…but you know, I really gotta figure out what whiteness means. We all have to figure out what it means, apparently, for our survival."
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On trying to understand what it means to be Asian in “John Cho Is One Step Ahead” in Vulture (2018 Aug 24)
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