Check out my “Interview with the Author” on fellow blogger C.N. Le’s website Asian Nation: http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2016/10/new-book-generation-gap-asian-american-families/

In it, I answer the following questions:

  1. How much did you personally struggle with balancing a close relationship to your parents and assimilating into mainstream U.S. society when you were growing up?
  1. Many Americans who are not of Asian descent still see Asian Americans as the model minority and as almost universally successful. How would you respond to their reaction that Asian Americans have nothing to complain about?
  1. Can you elaborate more on your concept of “saving face” and how it relates to how second generation Asian Americans navigating between their Asian and American identities?
  1. As your book highlights, there seems to be a very thin line between the model minority image and the “yellow peril” image of Asian Americans. How much did your respondents feel this tension in their everyday lives and interactions with other Americans?
  1. What are some pieces of advise that you can give young Asian Americans as they try to find the balance between retaining their ethnic identity and solidarity to their family and community, while also integrating themselves into mainstream U.S. society as much as possible?
  1. As the political, economic, and cultural interconnections between the U.S. and Asia become more important (and presumably the rivalries along the same lines), how do you think Asian Americans will be seen by the rest of U.S. society going forward?