What Is It Like to Be an Asian American in the United States?

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I'm interested in how I think one of the things we've seen emerge over the last 10 years which I found really fascinating is the emergence of a cleavage that really wasn't clear until quite recently. Norms like perfectionism or worship of a written word are somehow white supremacists when actually societies like China's have practiced them for a very long time. When immigrants from China are able to out compete white on those metrics I think that's very clear. Well paper tigers looked at the Stuyvesant phenomenon and it talked to people about the disappointment that came with adhering to a sort of legacy Asian American approach to their upbringings.

Wesley Yang is one of the America’s leading essayists. From “Paper Tigers,” his examination of why Asian-Americans remain underrepresented in leaderships positions, to “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” his meditation on the shooter who killed 33 people at Virginia Tech, he has traced America’s shifting understanding of race.

But over the past years, the focus of Yang’s work has subtly shifted. He is now trying to chronicle and explain what he calls the “successor ideology,” the constellation of ideas that seek to usurp liberalism, and which others have called by such names as “wokeness” or “social justice.”

In the latest episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and Wesley Yang discuss the precise definition of the successor ideology; the need for genuine empathy when exchanging ideas; and what forms of cultural sensitivity are truly inclusive as opposed to alienating

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