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Behind the Bastards

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The Fixation on Elders in Asian American Literature

I think the way that the kind of like hierarchy of victimhood, I guess, affected that has had. It definitely contributed to sort of why like stuff has been abandoned. And I also wanted to ask do you see this thing, this fixation on elders is happening at the same time that ancestors gets invoked a lot in like Asian American literature,. How did ancestors become such a thing? Yeah, it's really, I don't really don't understand how that happens. Like a lot of my ancestors fucking sucked like I don't know how to sort of like I don’t know.

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