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None of that is so surprising—it’s hard to earn four-fire-emoji status without having already built up a reputation within established institutions.

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To make myself, and by proxy other Asian Americans, more human and a little more relevant to American culture.

But like many model immigrants, he can be angry.

Illegibility was a political act.

He has a kind, round face and the relaxed, easygoing manner of someone who’s spent most of his life in California.

“You know, I don’t think she ever lost her shit around her white friends.” “Yeah, well,” Erin said ruefully, “we were family.”