In continuation of celebrating AAPI month it’s Kip’s pick with her favorite horror writer of all time: television writer Rod Serling, the creator of the Twilight Zone, who is from her birthplace of Binghamton, New York. Season 5 features Japanese American actor George Takei in this controversial, banned for TV episode entitled The Encounter. This deals with 2 people from the opposite side who are faced with their individual American guilt.
This TV episode stirs deep feelings from Kip & Dana with the sentence that many 3rd generation American children know well: “My parents speak it, but I can’t”. Dana recalls racist talk from her white grandpa & Kip recounts remarks from her racist black grandma.
Questions raised:
What were you rushing home to watch on TGIF: Martin, Family Matters, Full House, Boy Meets World?
Why are people constantly sweating on TV back then?
Asking those in the Asian community: What is the main reason for the changing of traditional names to Western names?
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