The Myth of Asian Perfectionism

Hardly Qualified with Horace Gold

I sat down with my friend, Alex Chung, to discuss what I thought I understood as perfectionism in the Asian community, and baby... it is so much deeper than that.
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1. intro (00:00:00)

2. thesis (00:00:10)

3. alex chung (00:01:42)

4. why i wanna talk about this (00:02:28)

5. 1st/1.5 gen (00:03:32)

6. family roles (00:04:11)

7. jang son/existential duality (00:06:26)

8. did your family embrace america? (00:07:35)

9. appreciating culture later (00:08:48)

10. black sheep (00:09:13)

11. the immigrant experience (00:10:00)

12. north korea (00:11:05)

13. holding reverence for childhood (00:12:56)

14. growing up in socal (00:13:12)

15. when did you realize it was different for you? (00:14:33)

16. resenting/forgiving our parents (00:15:03)

17. our elders did the best they could (00:16:46)

18. it's time to sprout (00:17:02)

19. how did you respond to the duty? (00:17:40)

20. produce the results (00:18:35)

21. it's jang son time (00:19:53)

22. who are you proving yourself to? (00:20:31)

23. go to therapy yall (00:21:43)

24. the audacity to dream (00:23:00)

25. the pressure of the ancestors (00:24:20)

26. double edged sword (00:25:26)

27. asian artist shortage (00:25:54)

28. if i were an immigrant (00:26:56)

29. we love steven yeun (00:27:26)

30. i want more asian artists (00:28:38)

31. emasculation (00:29:57)

32. model minority myth (00:32:15)

33. underselling our majesty (00:33:29)

34. identity evolution (00:34:56)

35. what would you change? (00:35:53)

36. alex wants to live in the walking dead lol (00:38:31)

37. WE NEED MORE ASIAN ACTORS (00:39:28)

38. DO YOU WANT KIDS? (00:41:43)

39. healing generational trauma (00:43:29)

40. follow alex on ig (00:43:42)

41. alex made me cry (00:44:00)