Live from New York with Author Min Jin Lee
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How to Write With a Moral Purpose in a Time of Mass Shootings
"I think people mean well. It's just that their knowledge of Asians and Asian Americans and Koreans are so, so limited," she says. "If I become inured to the pain and the grief of this, I will be a significantly worse artist." In Korea, how is Gen Z and millennials, like it's called Generation MZ in Korea? They actually put them together,. They call MZ. So then how is MZ different in Korea than versus the United States? And I said, mass shootings. The kids in Korea, you guys lack opportunities despite education. But in the United States, children who are MZ or now adults have only known mass shootings.
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