Gene Luen Yang:
That scene was written by Kelvin Yu who came from Bob's Burgers, that's where a lot of the humor comes from. And in that scene, there are these two boys, Jen, who is an ABC and American Born Chinese, and Wei-Chen, who comes from Asia.
And in a lot of ways, their relationship kind of symbolizes Jin's own relationship with his cultural heritage. Like at first, he's really embarrassed by this new friend. Right. But as the friendship progresses, he realizes that that that friend, Wei-Chen is actually connected to a much wider and much deeper world.
For a lot of us were immigrants kids. At first, we're embarrassed of our parent's culture, and of the kids at our school that comes from that culture. But as we get older, we realize that our parent's culture is actually connected to something much deeper and much wider than we first imagined.
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