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entrepreneur, now vc | founder & partner @kindredventures | early investor 🌱 @uber @coinbase @humane @perplexity_ai @color @tonal @dydx @ourzora @whisperaero
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If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if its's good or bad. -Miles Davis 🎺
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my 4yo woke up too early at 4am which is rare. when asked if he needs anything, he said “no, i ran out of dreams”. i keep thinking about this.
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introducing the Office Pod 🚌
while ppl were arguing on-repeat about remote work, the japanese just prototyped it into an EV concept car.
hope
@Nissan
collabs with Muji to get the industrial design dialed in! 🤞🏽
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1/ Nexon just announced buying $100M in
#Bitcoin
. This is the first large public company in Japan and Korea to buy cryptocurrency as part of its treasury. This is a really big deal for several reason.
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[Post] Why has South Korea's approach worked so far in "flattening the curve" w/ regard to COVID-19?
The hope is that we can learn from what has worked there and apply that here in the US and other countries quickly.
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Stunning images yesterday from Hong Kong. 2 million in the streets. An existential struggle at hand for Hong Kongers.
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This is truly extraordinary and surreal.
As a Korean immigrant, I never thought I’d see a moment like this. I once visited the DMZ as a child in the 80s. The tension, heaviness, and deep distrust felt permanent.
I don’t know where this goes, but I’m hopeful.
JUST IN: Kim Jong Un becomes first North Korean leader to cross line dividing the two Koreas since fighting ended in the Korean War
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Andrea Bocelli singing Amazing Grace today, standing alone at the empty Duomo in Milan.
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You all did it! $34m in the opening weekend box office. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@jonmchu
@ConstanceWu
@henrygolding
@awkwafina
@gemma_chan
@kenjeong
The Number 1 Movie in America, everyone.
#CrazyRichAsians
#RepresentationMatters
🎥🍿
The film has banked $34 million since opening Wednesday, far surpassing early industry expectations.
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1/ earlier this week, Minari, an independent film about an Asian immigrant family living in the Deep South during 1980s, was nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor. there are a lot of firsts happening here that are wonderful!
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we’ve raised a new fund!
dedicated to those founders building the truly early technology, often non-consensus, but in our opinion, instigating the inevitable future we want to live in.
grateful and lucky to support our mission-driven kindred founders and companies. and ever…
Hello! Some news.
We are thrilled to announce our latest funds:
$312M for seed stage founders who want to build the future!🌎✨
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“The days are long but the years are short”
Have begun to realize that this is one of the most true descriptions of being a parent.
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there’s a new nationwide epidemic of violence against americans of asian descent.
this kind of horrific s—- has no excuse, no logic, no place in our country. i worry about my family every day. i warn them to avoid any public places and not walk alone.
pls speak up, stand up.
Authorities in California’s Bay Area say they have seen an uptick in recent weeks in violent attacks against Asian Americans, many of them senior citizens. Now law enforcement is taking action.
@jolingkent
reports.
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[new blog post] little bit of news to share
absolutely stoked to share that
@km
and I have raised a new $100M seed fund at
@KindredVentures
our mission continues to be to invest in talented dedicated founders at the earliest stages of their journey 🙏🏽
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OH “I’m told the difference between Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is that...ML is written in Python and AI is in PowerPoint.”
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yes! psyched to see
@MinaProtocol
live on
@coinbase
now.
this decentralized network has been doing early and excellent work using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to create a lightweight performant blockchain.
Mina (MINA) is now live on & in the Coinbase iOS & Android apps. Coinbase customers can log in to buy, sell, convert, send, receive or store this asset.
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I’ve been using the Ai Pin by
@humane
for a couple months, and it’s changed my daily patterns and how I think for the better. I ask different questions now, more frequently. Getting answers while still in the moment. Capturing life and noting ideas, music, to-dos without removing…
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Thrilled to share that
@KindredVentures
led the $14.1M seed round for
@Extropic_AI
!
Since we first met this team, we’ve been so energized to work with them on their mission to the frontier of generative AI and physics to build an AI supercomputer.
Led by
@GillVerd
and…
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The misinformation given to the public by the
@WHO
is incredible.
Respiratory masks have been proven over the decade to mitigate droplet/aerosol transmission. Well understood not only in Asia, but by US medical research too (1/5)
If you do not have any respiratory symptoms, such as fever, cough, or runny nose, you do not need to wear a medical mask. When used alone, masks can give you a false feeling of protection and can even be a source of infection when not used correctly. ➡️
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It’s a rational investment strategy to believe that people will invest irrationally.
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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." '1984' by George Orwell
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@nikitabier
jazz, whiskey, bladerunner- park hyatt
quiet, architecture, instagram - aman
central, crowds, value - cerulean
design, mod, yakuza - okura
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P A R A S I T E !!!!!!
Oscar for Best Picture. Wow.
The first non-English language film to win this award. First Korean film to win after decades of great K movies. Finally.
Feels like the World Cup for Korean immigrants, but for movies! 🇰🇷🇺🇸✊🏽
#Oscars
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very honored to debut on the Midas List this year!
thankful to my partner
@km
, the
@kindredventures
team, and the truly incredible and dedicated founders and co-investors i’ve been lucky to learn from over the past 14 years as an angel and then vc. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
The 22nd annual Midas List is now live!
In a year of precious few IPOs or new mega unicorn rounds, the
#ForbesMidas
ranking of the world's top 100 venture capitalists features the return of a familiar face at the top, alongside 7 true newcomers.
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in stark counterpoint,
microsoft:
+saves apple from bankruptcy in 1997 with a $150m investment
+invests $250m in facebook in 2007, beating out (and later acq path by) google and yahoo
+invests $10b+ into openai this year
and acquires linkedin/activision/minecraft/github ✨…
Legendary. And the failed acquisition of Fb by negotiating for 200M.
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"If you have a seat at the table, hold the door open for others" -
@deray
. Great talk tonight w/
@favianna
@wkamaubell
at
@cityartssf
.
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Grateful for all the words of support yesterday from our community! In case you missed it, my good and brilliant friend
@km
and I are excited to announce we’ve teamed up and raised a new
@kindredventures
fund:
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@dsaezgil
our mental model of continental scale are so off. those old 2d maps we grew up studying have intentionally skewed sizes due to converting a spherical map to a flat rectangle. the aggregate land in the northern hemisphere is a _lot_ smaller.
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Dramatic footage of landing at the Rebel Alliance’s Echo Base on the planet Hoth (or at Maniitsoq Airport In Greenland)
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A great succinct post by
@fredwilson
about what matters when investing in a startup: “a large market, a great product, and a talented founding team”. 👌🏽
And I’d suggest one more variable: the right timing.
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midtown NY.
broad daylight.
no one helps her.
this could be your sister, your mother, your grandmother.
NYPD says 65-year-old Asian American woman was walking to church this morning when suspect assaulted her and said “f*** you, you don’t belong here.” Happened in front of 360 W. 43rd St. 11:40am. Sources say building security guard not only failed to render her aid... 1/2
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starting today and for the entire AAPI Heritage month of May, we’re hosting “
#AAPI
Storytellers”, a virtual film fest of critically-acclaimed independent movies and documentaries from AAPI filmmakers.
pls check out the schedule and join for a screening! 🎥📺🍿
In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, we are screening 12+ movies by Asian American and Pacific Islander filmmakers with live Q&As immediately following. All ticket $$ will be donated to the
#StopAsianHate
fundraiser on
@gofundme
. GET YOUR TIX at
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in seoul this week with my old friend
@tferriss
and we’ll be doing a podcast from here in south korea. 🇰🇷
what do you think we should talk about? do you have any burning questions about korean culture? reply and let us know…
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grateful to share that my family welcomed a new baby boy to the household a couple weeks ago. his given names are Lucien Taesu. these two names represent both heritages of his family, french and korean immigrants to the US.
also, paternity leave feels like winning✌🏽
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so much of venture capital, startups, and building great products come down to when to make an exception to a rule.
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this is all the more impressive when you realize they have only 21 ppl on the entire
@dydxprotocol
team.
5 years ago I left
@coinbase
and eventually founded dYdX
Today, for the first time,
@dydxprotocol
is doing more trade volume than Coinbase 😯📈
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our son bought a toy dump truck on amazon.
we found out when we got a delivery notification.
he is still 2 yrs old. these iPads.
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Missed the days when fake news meant The Onion. And it was haha funny, and didn't make you weep for our country.
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Two weeks ago, we hosted a special advance screening of
#CrazyRichAsians
movie here in SF. My friends, the awesome director
@jonmchu
and the two talented lead actors,
@ConstanceWu
and
@henrygolding
, flew in to share the story of what this movie means to each of them. 🎥🍿
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In a strong year of IPOs, only 1 of 14 large tech IPOs ($B+ raised) was from the US in 2018. 9 were from Asia. 2 from Europe. 2 from Latin America.
Successful startups outside of the US are not the exception anymore, but have become part of the rule. 🌏
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first time i met
@balajis
our chat went zero to 100mph from crypto to the virtues/tradeoffs of the singapore model of the city-nation state.
one of the great thinkers today applying a framework of decentralized networks to the real world. excited to read the upcoming book! 💊👁
I've been writing a book on how to start a new country.
It's finally coming out.
You can preorder it now.
It arrives on July 4.
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over the past year, many of the older institutions in our orbit have been quietly moving into
#BTC
.
made a simple chart to express the rationale: BTC vs Gold vs S&P500 vs USD Index Futures:
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man, Yuh-Jung Youn is the best...it’s like my mom won an Oscar. 😭💫
fun fact: she was friends with my mom in high school.
#Oscars
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news! we’re thrilled to share that
@humane
raised $100mm in funding.
fascinated by this incredible team and original vision for AI + consumer computing, we led their seed in 2019.
@KindredVentures
has returned to lead this round alongside new strategics and prior investors.🧵
We've got some news.
We're delighted to share that we've raised $100M in our Series C funding round.
Full press release:
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psyched today for
@js_horne
@dg_goens
@tbstl_
and the brilliant
@ourzora
team!
with this fresh $50mm from our friends
@HaunVentures
,
@coinbase
, and us
@KindredVentures
, they'll grow the new zora labs team + continue important NFT protocol development.
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My friend,
@MKeoniDeFranco
, just returned from Standing Rock. Pls read the letter he sent to us, and has now posted:
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A little over 3 years ago following the big launch in Japan, we flew to Seoul to secretly scout locations. After much research and building a skilled passionate team locally, Blue Bottle Coffee has opened yesterday in Seoul with a new roastery, cafe, and training lab! ☕️💙🇰🇷
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Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Parasite!
The director, Bong Joon Ho, starting writing the story between shooting Snowpiercer and Okja.
First Asian screenwriters to win an Oscar!
#Oscars
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honestly incredible to witness the crypto surge that is building at record levels. world-class talent are crossing over into web3. the velocity of development, adoption, and depth is nothing i've ever seen before in web1 or web2.
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@FunnyAsianDude
@christinelu
@nbcsnl
He just needs to go. Using the “ch*nk” word is not a joke. It’s a deeply offensive slur starting in the 1880s along with segregation and exclusion policies, and murders of Chinese immigrant workers in the US. Also, he isn’t funny.
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love to see it! congratulations to the
@MagicEden
team on their $130mm Series B. truly one of the strongest teams in all of web3. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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well-deserved props to team
@tonal
on leveling up today!
10x yoy growth
$100M+ revenue run rate
...and a fresh $110M of funding for the path onward and upward.
intelligent and connected at-home fitness is the way ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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damn. tony was a great one. always doing it that tony hsieh way and inspiring many around him in the process.
rest in peace brother
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Great data on the damage done by meetings overload in a company.
tldr
1/ less meetings for everyone
2/ protect the in-demand ppl on your team from meetings glut
3/ use collab tools & delegation to give others access to the in-demand ppl’s knowledge & skills
4/ see rule 1 👆🏽
At many companies, people spend around 80% of their time in meetings or answering colleagues’ requests, leaving little time for all the critical work they must complete on their own.
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love how this video by
@humane
came out.
really captures well some of the coolest features in live action. even so, there’s much more it can do. the road ahead will be fun.
The Human Experience
Sign up to get notified when orders begin, November 16th.
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love that she is the first outside of the company to wear the
@Humane
Ai Pin. 🙏🏽
👑
@NaomiCampbell
@
#ParisFashionWeek
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Congrats to
@MinaProtocol
on the successful launch of their mainnet!
Mina Protocol team have created a new lightweight, lightning-fast blockchain using zero-knowledge proofs, with >100,000 supporters and validators in over 120 countries⚡️⚡️⚡️
#MinaMainnet
is here 🎉 We are excited to announce the official launch of Mina’s mainnet today!
After three years of testing, and thousands of nodes synced, we are proud to release Mina –– the world’s lightest blockchain. Read the full story:
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last week,
@tferriss
and I recorded a podcast, live from seoul, south korea. it’s about K-wave (the korean wave), but more than that really.
recording this was emotional for me. hindsight and age give you a perspective on your people’s culture, upbringing and family, and own…
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Been half-speed at home the entire week with this knockout cold going around. However, our baby son just smiled and called me “Dadda” for the first time, and wow this week has been amazing. 👌🏽✨
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moderna no. 2 done yesterday morning.
24hr plan:
pho noodle soup
advil
surfing & swimming
hydration (6+ liters)
outcome:
slight headache
little fatigued
onset peace of mind ✨✨✨
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*comes back from long trip away
kid: “i missed you papa….”
😢
kid: “…i needed your code for the ipad”
😑
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When Muji creates things like this Gacha shuttle bus and last year’s beautiful Muji Hut, I wonder if we can’t just let them design a whole new Wabi city for us.
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Hearing abt lifelong Republicans voting for HRC. If that's you, I respect you for the distance you had to cross & for doing the right thing.
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my dad, my kid, and I building a radio flyer wagon together today. not sure how many moments we’ll get like this. thankful for the time.
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A refreshing thing I’m noticing at
@ycombinator
Demo Day...many startups with stated and actual intent to help improve our quality of life and planet, while also one day making a profit. 👌🏽
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Last night in Berkeley... a crazy jazz-legends type of show with much of our future onstage:
@KamasiW
@robertglasper
@terracemartin
@milesmosley
@lionelloueke
@tonyaustindrums
@drummaboiblue1
.
And the Maestro himself
@herbiehancock
! 🎹🥁🎸🎷🔥🙏🏽
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not even close. dotcom bubble burst was a near-extinction event.
internet and most of tech industries left bay area. ppl w banker boxes lined up on sidewalk, pkng garages, bart trains. leases in soma buildings went to $1/sqft at its worst.
only survivors: google, amazon, ebay
For people who were there... does this feel like dot-com bust level unwinding yet?
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frustrating to hear that close friends outside of the US and EU are trying so desperately and unsuccessfully to get vaccines for their families. meanwhile, in our country which makes the world's most effective vaccines, people are refusing them out of ignorance and politics.
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irony in this episode of $GME: citadel is largely responsible for both the run (order flow routing via robinhood) 📈 and the short squeeze (via melvin capital) 📉
This is some insane, crazy, baller shit:
r/wsb just ran over one of the most successful hedge funds around
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From several friends at Apple, we had heard whispers about two intriguing people,
@bella_bongiorno
and
@imranchaudhri
, who had been instrumental in the creation of the iPhone and iPad under Steve Jobs, and had ventured out on their own to create a new company called Humane. 🤔
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Happy to share our investment in Taika!
Delicious functional foods designed to promote your wellbeing. Starting with coffee! ☕️✨
by
@KindredVentures
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the good folks at
@Forbes
followed me around SF, capturing some of it on video:
~sights, flavors, and origin stories from this 7x7 city
~investing, before as an angel and now a VC, in the visionary founders as who can change the world
~supporting the small businesses and…
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5/ my friend,
@owenmahoney
, ceo @ Nexon, has been a longtime proponent of bitcoin, and we've had many long chats about SoV use case of BTC, game currencies, and NFTs. look out for more curious founders and CEOs who bring their personal exploration to benefit their companies! 👀
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2/ Nexon is a giant gaming platform with a $30B market cap, and is the largest gaming company in Korea, 2nd largest in Japan, and 4th largest in Asia. This initial investment represents 2% of Nexon's cash and starts a trend in Asia that other public companies will take seriously.
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go
@AndyKimNJ
! big congrats to you, family, and team 💙
andy just won re-election in a historically GOP district.
serves on committees for:
•small business
•coronavirus crisis
•armed services
only korean-american in US congress🗽🇰🇷🇺🇸
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Big news today from
@Humane
x
@SKTelecom
!
South Korea will be the first international market for the Ai Pin by
@Humane
and SKT will be the exclusive wireless carrier partner there. 🤝🤝🤝
So you might ask "why choose south korea first for a wearable multimodal AI device?"
-…
Thrilled to announce that
@SKtelecom
will become the exclusive telco provider for Ai Pin in South Korea.
Through our partnership, we will be exploring licensing of our Ai OS, called CosmOS, creating an entirely new operating model between carriers and…
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trippy to see skaters hitting handrails for olympic medals. back in the day, we’d get chased for doing this exact thing! 👾👾👾🥇
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A great thread on the unfortunately normal experiences of minorities/people of color, and why diverse representation in media does matter. 👇🏽
You’re 8 years old.
Your 3rd grade class orders chinese food & your father delivers it. You are so excited to see your pops in school. He’s your hero. But apparently other kids don’t think he’s so cool. They laugh at him and mimic his accent. You don’t want to be Chinese anymore.
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