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Alex Tizon

Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it’s baseless, it’s still hard to come face-to-face with.

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Alex Tizon

I do remember instances where girls would just fawn over me because they liked that I was different – exotic – to them. And they didn’t use the word ‘Asian’ at the time. All of the aspects that make me Asian, they liked.

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Alex Tizon

I guess you could say I’ve written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about race. To my mind, it was more about telling stories of people who existed outside the mainstream’s field of vision. Invisible people.

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Alex Tizon

The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.

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In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.

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Alex Tizon

Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.

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One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self that are actually more important than the development of the body and the capacity to commit violence – which is how much of Western pop culture defines a man.

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Alex Tizon

I didn’t go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was proficient in writing. But in becoming a journalist, I learned about other people who felt like they were on the edges of American mainstream life.

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I think there has been a long-running notion in the West that Asia was a continent of people that were really conquerable. That people from Asia were weak, they were small in all ways – including physically small, geopolitically small, economically small – all of which are changing, of course.

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Alex Tizon

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn’t picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.

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Alex Tizon

We all, to some degree, absorb the mythologies around us, our vision refracted by the prisms of our particular time and place.

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Alex Tizon

It wasn’t a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emptiness I was trying to fill.

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