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Celine Nguyen's avatar

loved reading this—simultaneously so funny AND good commentary on our geopolitical/cultural times

also this was hilarious and I am now a SUBSCRIBER…looking forward to more of your posts!!

‘Ten years ago, this would’ve been the fodder for an essay about “cultural appropriation” from some second-generation Asian American who believed that congee was a sacred food or that white people needed permits to enter Asian supermarkets.’

Naomi Xu Elegant's avatar

thank u for writing this I've been waiting for someone to address it for ages

Sarah Thankam Mathews's avatar

was guffawing by the final line. so funny and smart...a slay

charis's avatar

the whole chinese trend/fad is one that i’m a little uncomfortable with as a taiwanese american lmao (even though it’s objectively hilarious). great read!

Velociraver's avatar

Ellison owns TikTok to push the pro-Zionist nnarrative.

US teens were becoming too well informed about "israel" and it's genocide of Palestine on TikTok, and so now all criticism of "israel" is increasingly quashed as on Facebook, Youtube and Instagram.

Matt Brazil's avatar

Now where did I put my 超市回乡证grocery store permit?

KickCat's avatar

"Some time ago, I was hanging around a Fort Greene bar" oh you had me locked in from the start

All Now With Wings's avatar

Is it still ok to wear my Tang jacket?

Chloe Lee MH's avatar

It's so wild to me that Asian Americans or white people would be aghast when I told them I was moving to China in 2013. Once you go there, you realize that the quality of life can be better and that we've been fed political BS. I remember taking a Marxist class during my exchange program in China and the textbooks critiqued gun violence, drug abuse, and poverty in America. It did radicalize me as a fresh 20 year old and I haven't looked back.

Joe Gaffney's avatar

This was so funny and wemby is the goat

Jordan Schneider's avatar

Loved this essay. Any interest in recording a podcast about it w me and afra wang?

Grey Squirrel's avatar

I don't know if we're actually considered cool yet. Remember when people used to take Chinese classes in the US until Trump shut down Confucius institutes?

I think there's a while to go and the tankie thing is an ironic pose.

Lemoine Drake's avatar

Michael Winterbottom’s 2003 movie “Code 46” unleashed a certain Western fascination with futuristic China. A few years later Nick Land emigrated to Shanghai. Neo-China had arrived from the future and Sinofuturism was in full swing. I was there shooting commercials and was ultra-taken by Chinese cultural signifiers. At the time I figured they’d travel faster than they have, but it turns out accelerationism includes a lot of waiting around.