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The Science of Happiness

What if You Had Never Met?

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

Social Sciences, Science

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Do you take your partner for granted? Our Happiness Guinea Pig, cartoonist Gene Luen Yang, imagines a life in which he never met his wife.

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0:44.0

I was kind of like Superman.

0:47.0

I had two names. I had an American name that I used at school, a Chinese name that I used at home. He has these two different cultures that he has to

0:56.3

navigate. Kryptonian culture and American culture. I also had American

1:00.6

culture and Chinese culture.

1:07.0

A lot of people don't realize this, but most of the major superheroes, the most popular superheroes that we all know and love,

1:09.0

were created by children of immigrants.

1:12.0

Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, the Holt Captain America,

1:16.2

they were all the products of the sons of Jewish immigrants from Europe.

1:21.2

And I think that's where that dual identity dynamic comes from.

1:24.4

That's at the heart of the superhero genre and that really is a daily reality for

1:29.7

the children of immigrants. American superhero comics were a presentation of human ideals

1:35.4

about these people who often under really trying circumstances like

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