Viet Thanh Nguyen Quotes

For A Long Time I Felt Bad. I Wondered Why I Didn't Want To Learn Japanese, Why I Didn't Already Speak Japanese, Why I Would Rather Go To Paris Or Istanbul Or Barcelona Rather Than Tokyo. But Then I Thought, Who Cares? Did Anyone Ask John F. Kennedy If He Spoke Gaelic And Visited Dublin Or If He Ate Potatoes Every Night Or If He Collected Paintings Of Leprechauns? So Why Are We Supposed To Not Forget Our Culture? Isn't My Culture Right Here Since I Was Born Here?

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