It’s okay with me if he doesn’t talk. He can just sit there and I can look at him.

I lost my native accent within a year of moving from my homeland and returned home with some weird hybrid of all the people I’d met/places I’d been.

As someone who is not an actor, I am prone to this. I lost my native accent within a year of moving from my homeland and returned home with some weird hybrid of all the people I’d met/places I’d been. If I spend time around people with accents, I don’t really pick up their exact accent but some weird version of it.…

I’m starting to think there’s something to this. Like when Obama was elected and everyone was like “Well that’s just because he’s black!” People said the same thing about Hilary, “You’re just going to vote for her because she’s a woman!”

No I won’t!

Thank you for apologizing.

I meant no disrespect. It was simply a play on words that I would have made in any language. My last name has never been pronounced correctly. My husband was recently told “well, that’s not how we spell [his name] here”. I never gave a thought to be offended? My local airport is referred to as Ft Liquordale. Florida,…

Unless her parents were really creative, the alleged thief’s first name is Xulian and her last name is Jiang, despite the order.

So she makes fun of my language and *I’m* the one who needs to chill? Somehow, I think your priorities are misplaced.

Because racism is hilarious.

It is OK to be genuinely horrified. One need not adopt an “ironic posture” to distance oneself from the horror that is Trump’s inexplicable popularity. It is a kind of grownup thing to fully experience a genuine feeling. A person over 21 can probably handle it. Just a thought.

The world is not actually becoming more unfair for them. It’s actually starting to add people that usually didn’t get offered a chance at the table before. It could add some more but it's way better than when my parents were younger.

I’m also floating a theory that she’s not a real camera person but a police plant. But then, authorities never need help to persecute other people - there’s always some willing to step in on their own.

does anyone WANT to flee to Saudi Arabia or Qatar?

It is in no way compared to the feeling Native Americans have towards Non-Natives. They still have their own countries aren’t living under occupation like Natives are for one. Nor does that same resentment extend to other countries that have also invaded and ransacked. Europe has had a lot of wars, the Ottomans…

Lots of tripping going on in Eastern Europe these days.

[SHANKAR] VEDANTAM: What the researchers find, Steve, is that men are much more likely to be overconfident that women. In other words, when a female entrepreneur fails to reach her Kickstarter goal, she is likely to tell herself, OK, this is probably not for me. When a guy fails, he’s much more likely to say, it was…

Oh my god, does that talk exist in video/recording/transcript form anywhere on the internet? Because I would love to see that.

Thanks for this great piece, Jia. What a fascinating, frustrating, and complicated story, made much more interesting by Sherman Alexie’s generally sound commitment to tell-it-like-it-is racial politics. (He gave a talk at my college freshman year and called us all “privileged fucks,” which was (a) awesome and (b)…