My Hope for Mayor Mamdani | Vogue
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In Korea, where hierarchy determines many relationships, any person who is junior to you in experience in school, work, or field, is your hoobae. If you are senior to the person, you are the seonbae. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is my hoobae from The Bronx High School of Science. I am his seonbae. I did not know the 112th Mayor of New York in our alma mater. He’s class of 2010, and I’m 1986. I’ve never met him in person. I’m old enough to be his mom. But on the inauguration stage, I see his real mom, Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Mira Nair, seated right behind my hoobae and his wife, the…
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