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Yeah, he was just like good job america is stepping up against china I think like parents

Opinions can kind of surprise us as kids sometimes like I feel like I have this image of what my parents are in my head, but it's not always right You know, I had like a conversation with my dad about like uh stuff that he felt like was kind of communist Which I don't think korean people necessarily hold like anti-communist beliefs as much But he was just saying like oh if we do all these welfare programs then why don't we just fucking become communist? And then I was like wait But korea has all these welfare programs and you know you could argue that that's more communist than american welfare programs And he was like yeah, that's true, but it's okay And I was like wait Like why do you have these like set of like double standards for what is right in like korea versus what is right in america? But

yeah, it's really interesting I don't know about you guys, but like my parents since they've come here because they came a little later in their life I think they were already 30 or like late 20s. So they never quite were able to Learn english that well like they know enough to manage at work and stuff like that But there's actually like a disconnect between me and my parents because of like Um, some things get lost in translation I might have mentioned this on an like a previous episode But there was this one point where me and my parents were like kind of arguing in the car I don't even remember what it was about but like we were getting really heated up about it And then I said so you're saying this right blah blah blah and they're like no, that's literally not what we said And I was like wait what? And they're like dude, you're not understanding us and I'm like no, you're not understanding me and then That's just when I was like, okay already in arguments sometimes You just like don't quite understand what someone else is trying to convey at times But then like the extra layer of the different languages and stuff Even though like my chinese is okay, there's just still some things that they'll say That's like a little too complicated for me or like a concept or something Like even when we have these conversations about misinformation or like black lives matter or hate crimes on Asian American elders Sometimes it's hard to get like these complex ideas across to them

Dude, yeah, actually I think that's such a good point because growing up as like a second generation immigrant Your pronunciation could be good and like you could be comfortable with the language But that doesn't necessarily mean your vocab is like extensive enough to talk about like history and politics and Economics and stuff like that But I had like a pretty similar realization when I was visiting my parents recently And we had like this full fledged conversation that was like complex about racism and government and politics And at some point during the conversation I was getting really upset because I was like, dude Why is my dad yelling at me and this you know, we were kind of speaking in english And then he changed to speaking korean and I was like, oh wait, he's not yelling That's just how he sounds when he talks in english And then I was like, I wonder if that's why my mom You know sometimes gets defensive when I say stuff in english because she feels like i'm yelling at her But then when I speak korean, it's like I guess I sound sort of like a baby almost And I was like this is like the the magic of like tone when both parties aren't You know fully fluent and like fully comfortable in both languages because Yeah, I guess i'm just like stuck in that like second grader korean pronunciation kind of a thing and my parents have like a Like a different tone when they speak in english as well

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