Grateful for everyone talking about the importance of how people self-identify. My dad is Chinese, my mom is Thai, but the culture they shared is Thai. (My dad grew up in Bangkok, where my parents met.) I identify as Asian American first, then Thai American, for that reason. /1 https://twitter.com/aaronlmorrison/status/1293663558014767106

I don't personally feel I have the connection to Chinese culture to identify that way. We all have to be able to identify with what resonates as authentic to us. /2 end

I realized I didn’t properly end this thread last night. (So much going on in my brain, so much going on in life.) I appreciated @aaronlmorrison’s very clear tweeting that Kamala Harris IDing as Black “in NO WAY to dismiss her Indian (or Asian) heritage.” /3

In a similar vein, I don’t identify as Chinese as my first or second level of identification because culturally that would not feel as authentic to me. /end