Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by (Korean American) poet/author Cathy Park Hong
a collection of essays that examine Asians in America. Hong analyses the "minor feelings" of shame, discrimination and racism that Asian Americans suffer in everyday lives.
I did not relish nor rejoice inter pin and her trying to get. Sri on it. It is the fact that fro. A cues point of view we are approaching this life very different try that does not hinge on her being Korean, it does find itself constrain. Ed by her cis and atheists poi ts of view. For she approaches the m as aggressively as many represents the other side of the issues approach theirs.
The book was meaningful reading for me . I now understand better the depth of the shame factor can impact an asian’s lives , the pain not of a lack of unifying identity and a anything opposite of the use is the right and best essay fodder . Other than saying I would, recommend one skip the entire chapter on education thoughts. I can understand the concept she is describing I got it. Perhaps some of her Broad terms might be best left alone and she can return to specific details in her next chapter.
e must free ourselves of our conditional existence - be ‘awake’ to their suffering
Even if we've been here for four generations our status here remains conditional - belonging always promised and just out of reach so that when we behave we are absorbed into the main stream society
Witnesses already recruited us to become their junior partners… conscription is every day and unconscious
Our respective racial containment isolates us from each other and forcing our thoughts and our struggles are too specialized and relatable to no one else except others in our group. I'd rather leave a blank space for my pain, than have it be easily summed up for consumption. Sow the cratered land with candy and from its wrappers will rise Capitalism and Christianity.
Moreover I had to contend with this we. I wish I had the confidence to bludgeon the public with me like 1000 trumpets against them but I fear the way to my experiences decision professional class ,cis female, atheist, contrarian tip the scales of a racial group that remains so non-specific. We had a conference appointment it was swiftly cut down after graduation banner separation we need to hit approve ourselves again and again because we were at every stage of our careers underestimated.
Work is great and possibly catastrophic failure since failure to imagine what it means to live together dealing with inconveniently different faces.
A flashback to a feeling from a fear and shame, a tight animal alertness. Childhood is a state of mind whether it be an astounding return to innocence or a sudden flashback to unease and dread . innocence of childhood its being protected and comforted and then the precarity of childhood is when one feels the least protective
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