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Feeling Asian

Peeling The Onion Of Privilege

Feeling Asian

Youngmi Mayer & Brian Park

Society & Culture

4.9941 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Youngmi and Brian discuss the emotions that come with realizing privilege and the efforts to correct it. Self-pity. Burnout. Guilt. Optimism. Youngmi also shares her oversight as a business owner and how she plans to keep herself accountable going forward.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

How are you feeling?

0:04.0

I'm feeling Asia. Welcome to Feeling Asian a podcast where two Asians talk about their feelings.

0:19.5

I'm your host, Young Me Mayor.

0:21.6

And I'm your other host Brian Park you know this is the thing we

0:25.5

were living in COVID it was unprecedented was the word for that whole thing and it

0:31.2

was going on and we are just like how this is so bizarre the entire world is going

0:35.7

through this like phenomenon and we're just like what is this and we're like how could it get any worse

0:42.2

how could it get any worse? How could it get any more intense?

0:44.9

And here we are.

0:46.2

Helicopters flying around my apartment right now.

0:49.1

You know, as you all know, I'm in New York City,

0:51.0

Brian's in Texas.

0:52.0

I don't know how it is out there, but the entire city has,

0:55.1

we're out on the streets.

0:56.5

It's on fire, which is good for me, you know me,

0:58.6

and chaotic legend.

0:59.3

I'm like, yes, everyone throw, throw the system into the trash. Let's throw the system into trash.

1:03.7

The whole country away.

1:05.8

Yay!

1:06.8

And you know, like last week I talked about how I,

1:09.5

it reminds me of when I was a teenager

1:11.2

and I finally broke free of my abusive childhood and I was manic and it gives me this great feeling of freedom and there's a lot of fear because I'm like this future is uncertain.

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