Great speaker today
Apr. 7th, 2009 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athenaltenaToday Diversity Services invited a woman named Cathy Bao Bean, who gave a talk about being bi-cultural and how we have different "modes" because of our culture.
She was born in China and mostly raised in the US, she's married to a white artist who does stuff like paint the lawn and wear pick socks and sandals with a suit, has a bi-racial son, and is gut-bustingly hilarious while also being very deep and poignant while speaking. I also bought her book, The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, A Memoir and Manual since it includes quotes like this:
No father - especially an immigrant from China - says to his daughter, "Please, marry an artist."
Definitely have to read it. Just the intro is hilarious, I'll probably be quoting from it as I read. Diversity Services gets really good speakers at their events, though I always end up buying their books. ^_^;
And so the mighty book pile increases once again. I'll just put it after the John LeCarre that I'm only a few pages from the end of.
She was born in China and mostly raised in the US, she's married to a white artist who does stuff like paint the lawn and wear pick socks and sandals with a suit, has a bi-racial son, and is gut-bustingly hilarious while also being very deep and poignant while speaking. I also bought her book, The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, A Memoir and Manual since it includes quotes like this:
No father - especially an immigrant from China - says to his daughter, "Please, marry an artist."
Definitely have to read it. Just the intro is hilarious, I'll probably be quoting from it as I read. Diversity Services gets really good speakers at their events, though I always end up buying their books. ^_^;
And so the mighty book pile increases once again. I'll just put it after the John LeCarre that I'm only a few pages from the end of.
