![]() ![]() And on the block where we lived I didn't play with any other Asian-American kids. ![]() ![]() But I think, to your point, there was something special for my brother and I growing up in southern California, where there are other Asian-Americans, but we didn't go to school with many. I remember Nadia Comaneci, it was on the news all the time about how she got perfect 10s and she had broken all these records! Even for an Asian-American kid in LA, she was absolutely world-famous. I grew up in Romania and I remember wanting to be a gymnast like Nadia Comaneci. It’s interesting how culture-specific idols shape our fantasies as kids. He was just too cool and obviously a kind of physical genius in terms of his fighting, grace, and velocity with which he moved. I watched Fist of Fury and Enter The Dragon, and there was something about him that was also not quite human. ![]() And somewhere among all this was Bruce Lee. This was probably based on video games where there are these really buff, impossibly good fighters. But there was a phase where I thought I would want to be a kind of hybrid between a video game character and a sort of elite fighter. I loved science and I had this image that I would go on to develop a pill that you could take once a day and you didn't have to eat. Charles, when you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? ![]()
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