This is why every single significant piece of Chinese-American media I can think of is about parental, almost exclusively maternal trauma (everything from Joy Luck Club and the Farewell to Crazy Rich Asians, EEAAO, Turning Red, etc.)

Ik this pod isn't high on Camus or w/e but I find it funny how he loved actors for the same reason Chua hates them, yes to an extent she's just weird but she's also totally incurious abt the human condition. Meaning of life? Money and status, end of story

It's just such a lightless view of humanity where even music is just a kind of marker of generic "success", something you put on your Common App and then either drop entirely or at best use as a party trick at one of Amy Chua's parties to gain even more access to power

So much to say on Amy Chua, but the one that comes to mind is that you know if she had actually somehow instilled a passion for music in her children and they had told her they wanted to be a keyboardist for a band or something she would have turned that house into Abu Ghraib

New social will fix me (clueless)