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the asian zoomers aren't like me | Jenneral HQ

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I'm ethnically Chinese. My parents were born in the 70s, spent their dirt poor childhoods under the communist regime, and went to university just in time to participate in Deng's opening up in the country. They had me in the late 90s, and soon later decided to head to Canada for the sake of my wellbeing (they were worried about the smog levels) and the ability to have more children. For the first few years of my life, they worked minimum wage factory jobs here while my grandparents raised me in their stead in China. I joined them at six, and lived with them in various Chinese ethnoburbs in Toronto. If you look through my grade school yearbooks you'll see that a significant minority of my classmates were also ethnically Chinese, with parents whose stories rhymed with my own. When social justice warriorism was invented in the early 2010s, there was like, a wave of discourse about what it's like to grow up in an immigrant family, and those stories resonated with me to an extent that sort

the asian zoomers aren't like me – Jenneral HQ 🌠 the asian zoomers aren't like me 15 Nov, 2025 I'm ethnically Chinese. My parents were born in the 70s, spent their dirt poor childhoods under the communist regime, and went to university just in time to participate in Deng's opening up in the country. They had me in the late 90s, and soon later decided to head to Canada for the sake of my wellbeing (they were worried about the smog levels) and the ability to have more children. For the first few years of my life, they worked minimum wage factory jobs here while my grandparents raised me in thei

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