Rich as I Could Be - Matt Shu
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Dolly Parton, Country Music, and My Mama’s Cooking
Listen along: the playlist on Spotify. A Thai translation for my mom and family is on my personal website. My music tastes have never quite fit demographic expectations. I’m an Asian American from the suburbs of D.C. I ascended into one of the Northeast’s ivory towers: Yale. Today, I’m a machine learning engineer and wannabe sociologist planting my roots in San Francisco. Sure, I grew up working class, but my mom’s a hair stylist and my dad a tour guide. There’s not a single blue-collar bone in my body. Yet somewhere along this road, I became a country music fan. The first concert I ever…
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