On today's episode of the future, we're going to follow up on our conversation with

Jeanette Liao about being Asian American and wanting to go into the creative field.

I think this is a much broader conversation we're going to have and we're going to dive deeper into that.

If you haven't done so, go and listen to that conversation first.

So when I was editing this podcast, one of the things that kind of stuck out to me was somebody asks about the experience of being Asian American in a creative field.

And one of the things that Jeanette talked about that I found really interesting was this sort of idea

that her parents or Asian American parents in general would kind of say, you know,

oh, you want to get into a creative field, like that's a good hobby.

Like that's something that you can do on the weekends.

That's like patronizing, right?

Yeah, yeah.

But that was kind of, you as well as a white American.

You know, my parents had a similar attitude towards me wanting to get into the arts even after my brother

who's older than me had gotten into the arts and had been kind of successful you

know on his first outing.

So I'm interested to hear your experiences with that.

And do you think that is a

a general parental wanting safety and security for your kids?

That's a really good question. I thought in our conversation with Jeanette, I felt like we were bonding on this thing because a lot of my friends, cousins that are Asians,

they've already eliminated this whole field

as a possible option to pursue in life.

I'm not saying this is an exclusive Asian American

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