how we got here, where we heading? traveling chief of staff. like, you don t count. a lot of the model minority myth was manufactured to divide our communities. how many of you have dated white guys? race trader. we want to make everybody proud, but we don t take enough time to make ourselves proud. great to see you, how are you? are you comfortable carrying the burden of the words k houston, texas. it may not be the first city to come to mind when you think of quintessential places in the asian american experience. but as the saying goes, everything is bigger in texas including its aapi community. one of the biggest in the country and its diversity is something to behold. i grew up in another gulf state, florida, with my commute karina merrick and family. throughout my journey i have been a lawyer, a legal analyst, and now an anchor on msnbc. this is the katie phang show. for my dinner with seven incredible aapi women i want to wonder what makes each of us
you ve been a trail blazer. was it something you always wanted to do? ironically it was not at all. my parents immigrated from taiwan in the 60s. from my parents that same tenet of education was everything. i grew up in a very classic a s average, because bad, c s catastrophic, these disowned and f is the underlying thing they had right was if you get educated it is something that nobody will be able to take away from you. for me, all i want to do growing up was make them proud. what i think unifies us as asian women is we don t want to make every, anybody ashamed of us. we don t want to be ashamed of ourselves and we want to make everybody proud and we carry the weight of each other, but we don t take enough time to make ourselves proud. all of us belong to this bizarre tent, that s fake,