Infernal Identities

Sean Niu
5 min readAug 19, 2020

Asian Americans are born juggling multiple cultural identities. Some labels come with your birthplace, others are given to us by the history and hopes of our family. Although family expectations are not unique to us, our cultural proclivity for long-term sacrifice adds the weight of generations to these well-meaning wishes. Asian Americans are thus faced with a difficult choice: embrace these expectations or set them aside so we can navigate our own…

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Sean Niu

I used to work at a hedge fund and Amazon. Now I run a podcast (The Electric Image Express) and write (Electric Dreams) about Asian American issues and film.