How we got, here and how were heading. It was manufactured t divide our communities how many of you i want to make everybody proud but we dont take a lot of tim to make ourselves proud. And to see you, how are you are you comfortable carryin the burden absolutely i am quintessential places in the american experiments as the saying goes, everything is better in texas, includin the Aapi Community one of the biggest in th country, and its diversity i something to behold. I grew up in another gulf state, florida my korean American Family throughout my journey, iv been a lawyer, illegal analyst and now an anchor on msnbc this is the katie phang show. For my dinner with Seve Incredible Aapi women, i wante to honor those cultures. I went in search of two chef to collaborate on on spectacular meal im a chef here in houston. Born and raised in burma als known as myanmar im a trained home cook. I grew up in my grandmother kitchen. My mom, it was a vietnames refugee, cooked a lot of great home co
communities, being fair skinne is a very big deal so, we also have this craz belief system in south asia. definitely in pakistan if you drink milk it makes you skin white i m lactose intolerant, yo guys you don t understand i been sitting at the breakfas table, my mom looked - she has to drink the milk. if she doesn t drink the milk, no one s going to marry her. she s so dark. it s your story it s not limited to jus this culture if you look at the standard of beauty, especially this curr and brady, for example it s all very vietnamese to it s whites. the skin has to be way it s like an alabaster white i remember when i was growing, up if you had dark skin it meant that you worked outsid in the rice patties. if you are white and fai skinned, and met you are a elevated status. and we have to thank our chefs
thank you the male tonight was spectacular. thank you so much. it s our honor asian food is all about gathering together at th table. the chefs are very honored i hope it fostered really good conversation a good time in a goo experience with the food and drinks you put our names on. it was truly spectacular. thank you so much. i had the pleasure of comin here tonight to join you a this table i m going to go back to my little girl whose eight year old. when i m going to take back to her or call it a pearl o wisdom what s the best way of looking at the future for aapi women i always say to young women i certainly say this to my son not be afraid of doing the thing that scares you the most it might actually be worth it.
the first question for the table is this. to prepare for tonight, it was very easy to go on the interne and google each and every on of you some of you have impeccabl kept wikipedia pages, and applaud you for that what about you is not commonly known on the internet? i don t have a husband. it s a big thing on google people type in my husband al the time do you think is because the think you need to husband? i think so. i think it s my mom. and, what about you was not out there are the failures, what s not out there are the stumbles, what s not out there are the doubts, an the fact that i believe that s many of leadership is actually leading with vulnerability and empathy. that doesn t come through, i don t think in what succes looks like especially in the corporat world. dig in, by the way. dig in part of what we talked abou is this idea that there is a
she said, you don t count. wow but she was right i did not count, because i 2008, the right kind o diversity was not asia american diversity, because al of our communities, and i sa that about everybody at this table, we re not voting in large enough numbers to be abl to make a difference in an state. that s why for me, to find thi incredible amount of pride i 2020, how south asian american communities, east asia american communities, arab american communities, actually voted in large enough numbers, and in certain states carried. georgia george is a perfect example. so my mom always had this concept that being in american meant but being able to fight. that s what america is pure white. that was the thinking.