Jimmy O. Yang

Name: How to American
ISBN: 9780306903502

Actor

1987-06-11

Books by Jimmy O. Yang

How to American

An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
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I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.
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I tried my hardest to be the opposite of a stereotypical Asian student.
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I think in China they have a camera for every street corner, and if you jaywalk, they don't give you a ticket. They put you on the big TV screen to shame you.
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I studied economics and thought I wanted to play with the stock market - my dad was a financial adviser - and I was going to go down that path. I was an intern at Smith Barney.
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Mother always tries to buy things for a reasonable price. I was never allowed to buy things at full price. Probably, it's rooted in the Chinese mentality. We are very thrifty.
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I was always pretty good with making deals. When I was in sixth grade, when Pokemon cards were hot, I might have started with, like, three or four cards, and then at the end of the year, through trading with my friends and everything, I ended up with the biggest card collection in my school.
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A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.
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I always have to brace myself when I visit my parents. My mom often greets me with a slew of nonconstructive criticisms: 'Jimmy, why is your face so fat? Your clothes look homeless and your long hair makes you look like a girl.' After 30 years of this, my self-image is now a fat homeless lesbian.
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