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Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is There a Level of Inheritance in the Relationship?

I think Americans who are native born and who don't have a huge ethnic backdrop to themselves are always looking for it. Like this question of what am I? An American doesn't always do the trick. There's something that we as people who are born abroad or who have a very well-defined culture have, you know, and maybe the insecurity is that he knows about Chinese ceramics, but he has absolutely no background of his own that he can bring to the fore. Right. It could be.

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