DangItBobbeh

The original post about the SF dating event was cringe (yet innocent!). The reactions to it, though, are becoming a pattern. See the attached image. I think we’re facing a cultural assimilation problem that remains largely invisible because these groups do well financially and are otherwise prosocial. Because of this, I worry that East and South Asians have become the face of misplaced anger toward “coastal elites.” If you live in these circles you might not see it, but a lot of Americans will have a hard time accepting 2nd-gen East/South Asian immigrants as the new professional class. Merit doesn’t matter to many of these people because they read much of "striver" culture as crass therefore undeserving status. And on top of that, they’re seen as “stealing” a birthright from downwardly mobile heritage Americans.