Sublime

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

precocious.

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

rhapsodizing

inchoate

But like many model immigrants, he can be angry.

As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.

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