No, I spent a lotoftimealoneinmyroomlearninghowtodothat.
Growingup, I waslike, ohmyGod, ohmyGod, I can't belikeeveryotherAsianperson.
So I forcedmyselftobecomeeveryAsiandudefromCalifornia.
I havesomuchracialself-hatredandlike, ofcourse I do.
IntheUnitedStates, thereis a criticallyacclaimed, widelytaughtchildren's book, I wasforcedtoreadninemilliontimes, TikiTikiTembo.
Thefirstsentenceofthatbookis, thereoncewas a ChineseboynamedTikiTikiTembo, nosawRembo, CherryBerryRuchi, PitBerryPembo.
No, therewasn't.
I have a Chinesebrother, hisnameisKevin.
Andwhenthiswhiteauthorwasconfrontedbyit, shewaslike, "OhmyGod, I'm sosorry, I don't speakChinese. I justwrotedownwhat I heardmyneighborsay."
Sowe'regoingtodo a groupexperiment, where I'm goingtosayrealChinese, andthenatsomepoint I'm goingtoswitchtonotquiteChinese.
But I won't tellyouwhen, youtellmewhen.
(SpeakinginChinese) Hello, mynameisWuJunyi. I loveeatingwatermelon.
(SpeakinginChinese) And I heardthisbookiscalledTikiTikiTembo, NoSawRembo, CherryBerryRuchi, PitBerryPembo.
I'vetoldthatjoke a milliontimes. Youarethefirstgroupthathasgottenit.
Obviouslynot.
Sonow I havethis, now I havethiscomplexwhere I'lldoanything. I feelsobadaboutmyself.
I'lldoanythingtoget a whitepersontolikeme. Like I'velearnedcrazy, likehowtobeatbox. Tellme, tellme, whythe f*** do I knowhowtodothis?
Thirteen? Thirteenyearsold, I coulddothis?
Youwanttoknowwhy?
Itwastotrainforbarmitzvahs.
I wasin a closeted, label-lessrelationshipwiththiswhiteJewishwoman, who a yearintoourrelationshipwaslike," I loveyousomuch, youmeantheworldtome, doyouwanttobemysquirrelfriend?"