Dr. Joseph Lee
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first heard Aug 2022
last heard Aug 2022
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I think one of the things that as Asian American that I find beneficial is my lived experience of someone who's born in the United States, has lived here my whole life, is definitely someone who has a very American experience.
But my parents are also immigrants.
And they've lived here, obviously, just as long as I've been alive.
But their sort of culture in which they grew up as children, as teenagers, as young adults is distinctly Asian.
And so I'd say my experience is the one, though, that's kind of exposed to both, right?
And so one of the unique things, I think, of having, let's say, an Asian-American perspective is,
is that you can kind of see America from a different perspective than if you were a monocultural American, right?
I'm a bicultural American.
And one of the things that is uniquely American, more so than other cultures, is the degree of individualism that we've normalized here.
how we think it's very normal to emphasize autonomy and personal independence and the freedom of I get to make choices for myself, which has merit.
But I think the idea of how individualistic we are in America is
is even more so than even other like, let's say, Western European countries where like the idea of individualism came from, right?
So I think that there is this uniquely American aspect to the degree to which even more so the if it's not relevant to me, I don't see why it's relevant.
I think that's a weird idea to people in other countries, you know, if stated that way.
So I think that that part's challenging.
Circle back to earlier in our conversation, though.
I think that when I mentioned, I said, you know, the whole idea of social emotional learning, SEL, is a response to something that is, I think, generationally like in this moment in time.
And I mentioned that the encouraging thing is, you know, regardless of it's taught in schools or not, I do think that kids and young adults now just broadly culturally are more socially, emotionally aware in a much more natural, intuitive way.
I think it actually is really our generation and older that really kind of needs to learn this first in a more academic, intellectual sense and be convinced that it's relevant.
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