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Jenny Arimoto
Jenny Arimoto

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Nov 30, 2020

Responsibilities of the “Asian Best Friend”

White supremacy taught me that I didn’t deserve to be the leading character in my own life. Now I’m working to unlearn self-hatred. — “My favorite chink.” As I flipped through my dad’s high school yearbook, I couldn’t believe how many of his classmates left racist handwritten messages. In shock, my sister and I confronted him. How could he be okay with his friends using slurs against him? My dad responded with a laugh…

Asian American

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Responsibilities of the “Asian Best Friend”
Responsibilities of the “Asian Best Friend”
Asian American

5 min read

Jenny Arimoto

Jenny Arimoto

101 Followers

NYC-based comedy writer who is probably thinking about soup right now.

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