Pearl Tan quotes
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“I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?”
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“My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype.”
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“My friends often say I'm the most racist person they know against Asians. And it's sort of like, "If I make the joke first, then I have the power and I'm holding the cards and you're not going to put me down for that."”
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“Sometimes I feel embarrassed because I'll tell the kids if someone is driving really slow or cutting in, I'll say "Bloody Asian drivers." But I feel justified in saying it because I'm Asian.”
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“I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.”
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“I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were fighting. The first thing that I like to fight is racism because I know what it means, how it destroys the fabric of my society, of my wellbeing.”
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“I see racism as a cancer. It is a cancer growing in us. Unless we stop it, it vegetates and grows bigger which hurts every one of us.”
-- Pearl Tan
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“Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”
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“I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.”
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“Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.”
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“I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.”
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“Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.”
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“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”
Source : "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". techland.time.com. April 02, 2013.
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“I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?”
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