Sublime

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

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

It’s always startling to come across Cha’s videos in the company of other artists, as if I’m seeing a relative whom I haven’t seen for years in a bright public space. But what are you doing here, I want to ask, where have you been?

Commodified Hawaiian culture—the “luau,” the “hula girl,” and “aloha”—became part of the American vernacular and everyday life.

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