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Andrew Ti, Tawny Newsome

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4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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(This episode was recorded before the Roe v. Wade news)

Tawny and Andrew discuss Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and a billionaire buying Twitter.

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0:00.0	Happy Sunday and Sunday and to am through only happy Asian American and Pacific Heritage
0:22.0	Month. Thanks. Thanks, Doc. I said it backwards. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
0:29.2	Is it? I'm going to say, and this is just sort of a new political identity for a lot of folks
0:36.9	on celebrating. I thought it was Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage.
0:40.9	Eight, no, eight. I think it is both that, but if you shorten it, because I learned this
0:48.0	maybe last year, because it feels backwards to my brain. So I think the shortened version,
0:52.6	the approved version is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and I'm so sorry to mansplain
0:56.7	that to you. No, but that's what I'm saying. That's the whole thing. It's like, there's,
1:02.9	okay, a whole Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month is what I just, okay, I don't know.
1:09.3	It's a love to figure this out on Mike. It's just, well, no, I mean, I mean, you know, it's,
1:14.8	the that, you know, the term is fluid. It's still being sort of worked out.
1:22.5	I think for a lot of people, you know, you see a movie like Crazy Rich Asians, which has
1:26.4	all Chinese people or Korean and Filipino people playing Chinese people. The word Asian
1:34.0	is undergoing a lot of changes and who the hell knows where it's going to be. So no, I'm comfortable
1:42.0	with the reality that shit just, it's, you know, it's getting sorted out. Asian people, Asian
1:50.3	Americans, because Asian people don't particularly see themselves as Asian in Asia. I mean, they do,
1:56.8	but that's not the number one. Whereas I think for a lot of Asian Americans, it is becoming the number
2:02.4	one. We're just kind of Asian. Yeah, I think that's interesting. Let me know folks. I don't know.
2:09.0	I was going to ask you how you felt about when, because I see it in TV, and I don't know if this
2:14.5	is a case of maybe a majority white writer room, not knowing the proper terms, or maybe if
2:20.0	these are the proper terms. But when you see inter-Asian friendships in characters on television,
2:27.8	and they refer to themselves and each other as Asian as opposed to their actual, you know,
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