Your valuable traits you've listed imply a lot about your potential to provideI think this is an illustration of the phenomenon, but it's not the phenomenon you think. Half of the 4 sentences in my self description had nothing to do with my ability to provide. Also, the 1st two sentences had much to do with my socioeconomic status and implied level of education -- both of which are sub-cultural markers. Yet you project on me a preoccupation with providing.
Growing up as someone from this culture who just so happens to have this face, I know from both sides the distortion of this culture. We east asian men are supposedly useful economic and intellectual entities with inferior aesthetics or souls or something like that. Your projection fits this pattern.
The Bay Area is the same millieu where there was a widespread racist idea in the dot-com years, that south asians were somehow incapable of the deep thinking required for creating a disruptive startup. I didn't say that. It's from the self account of an Indian entrepreneur in a documentary about race in Silicon Valley. I don't really see this place as having changed.
If you are from the dominant culture, of course you are spinning this in terms of those complaining being somehow inferior. Not all those who complain are without reason. If you look at culture historically, this happens again and again, and it's quite hard to see from inside the dominant culture.
I think this is an illustration of the phenomenon, but it's not the phenomenon you think. Half of the 4 sentences in my self description had nothing to do with my ability to provide. Also, the 1st two sentences had much to do with my socioeconomic status and implied level of education -- both of which are sub-cultural markers. Yet you project on me a preoccupation with providing.
Growing up as someone from this culture who just so happens to have this face, I know from both sides the distortion of this culture. We east asian men are supposedly useful economic and intellectual entities with inferior aesthetics or souls or something like that. Your projection fits this pattern.
The Bay Area is the same millieu where there was a widespread racist idea in the dot-com years, that south asians were somehow incapable of the deep thinking required for creating a disruptive startup. I didn't say that. It's from the self account of an Indian entrepreneur in a documentary about race in Silicon Valley. I don't really see this place as having changed.
If you are from the dominant culture, of course you are spinning this in terms of those complaining being somehow inferior. Not all those who complain are without reason. If you look at culture historically, this happens again and again, and it's quite hard to see from inside the dominant culture.