uh were you ever scared to show off how
smart you were in class because kids
would think you're a teacher's pet
i was never at that level
were you the guy that was
like teacher's back
sit down
now i was the kid that was just like
sleeping in the back
nice
think i was very
just thinking about this now i think i
was just such an insecure child because
that depended on who i was with like
let's say it was for
i was at a summer camp or it was at
after school and i was with people who i
thought were like kind of cool or like
you know they were popular i wouldn't
ever volunteer i'd just be like like
what was she saying but then at school
if i was around like
the smart kids then i would be like i
would try to
volunteer and like get the teacher's
attention
but that's just so sad thinking about it
now like a little bird inside my heart
died
[Laughter]
just when you said it
it is kind of sad it is but
i think it's something that like whether
or not we admit it we all kind of do
yeah
right yeah even now if you think about
it like if i'm in a room of
like sometimes i'll find myself in a
room of
rappers
right like young rappers
and
will be like they'll be listening to
something and they're just hype as
right
and i'm like i'm just too old right i'm
like what was going on
i'm not gonna like i'm not gonna like
say you know
like wise things there
yeah you know i'll just be like
pretending to enjoy it but like you know
so it's it's just you're reading the
room kind of and that's i think that's
natural it's not that you know
it's just normal for people to do
yeah i mean like when you're younger
you're still trying to figure yourself
out and you're kind of just like lost so
i think you're more prone to doing crave
acceptance are you better now yeah okay
i hate when people smart shame you as in
they ask you a question and you don't
know the answer so they just respond
brutally with something like what the
heck i thought you were smart
yeah it's more shaming i think worse is
like
it's like when you're in i don't know
it's like
yo what's what's well time's there
you're like huh and they're like i
thought you were good at math
because you're
asian
[Applause]
in vancouver no it's not even like oh i
thought you were good at math it's like
hey what's that was like what's like
this time this and you're like i don't
know and they're like i thought you were
asian yeah
i thought you were good at men because
you were asians i think you were asian
what does that mean
i think yeah racism is pretty bad
i i would agree with you i mean smart
shaming is bad but racism is much it's
far worse yeah yeah it's a bigger
problem
yeah
i feel i feel like we kind of had that
kind of a little bit of pressure just
because we're asian we had to be smart
or we had to appear
smart like we had to come kind of live
up to people's expectations you know
what i mean i think i had i had that
true live in the states and i think in
reverse too like i think some people
because they're asian and they they
don't like being perceived as like a
nerd or smart
they will
deliberately act like they're not smart
or like you know sort of like hard you
know what i mean
but and then you discover they're like
intelligent as hell yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah i i had a few friends yeah yeah me
too
like
untapped like gift
you know yeah like some some kids are
just like they dropped out of school and
they're like just
uh you know sort of getting in trouble
and stuff and then
you talk to them and then you realize
they're just smart
no
what are you talking about
you know you're just they're like laying
brick
with their buddy
and you just assume that you know
they're getting into fights and stuff
yeah you know and going to bars like
harvard bars yeah but you realize
they're actually geniuses yeah they have
photography memory they could work at
the nsa
it's a good movie is that the one we're
like um you see this apple or whatever
oh yeah i still don't get that what the
hell is that yeah i don't know
yeah i don't know
i still don't get that joke yeah maybe
it's like a boston thing
no it wasn't are you from boston well i
went to boston college so oh so i was
there from the photo so it's not a
boston thing no i don't think so i don't
know
i thought you were smart
just got smart shames
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