Transcript (en)

I think a lot of us have those different aspects to ourselves, whether that's code switching between a professional and personal life, or family and friends, or the town you grew up in and the town you settle in. So it's a more universal experience than that. It happens to be a bit more dynamic and a bit more emphasized, I think, when it's along ethnic or racial lines. But that's my story. That's every Korean American, Asian American, Native American, African American person story that I know. There's a story of how you were raised, the people you were raised with, the cultures that you come from, and then the story of how you try to fit yourself into the jigsaw puzzle of America, and what we see as the mainstream of America. So in that way, it's very familiar territory, and it's simply honing the details.