Personal Note - by Wesley Yang - Year Zero

Some Aspects of How I Got Here

To the fairly marginal extent to which I have a reputation as a writer, I am perhaps best known as the author of the following passage: "Let me summarize my feelings toward Asian values: Fuck filial piety. Fuck grade-grubbing. Fuck Ivy League mania. Fuck deference to authority. Fuck humility and hard work. Fuck harmonious relations. Fuck sacrificing for the future. Fuck earnest, striving middle-class servility." This was of course a provocative statement of my own idiosyncratic personal feelings (those of a self-confessed malcontent, misfit, and Bohemian with only a very tenuous connection…

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