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A friend of mine posted a status about artists in the Chinese community needing support and appreciation. This got me thinking about my place as a filmmaker, or in general an artist, in the community. Let me be blunt for a minute to all you artists out there. We chose this path to have a mediocre living. Our path is full of hardships and rejection; sometimes we’ll barely have enough to get by on living. But we didn’t choose this life in hopes to make it big one day or change the world. No… we chose this path as a career because we’re passionate about what we do. We see differently in the world and want to express what we think needs to be changed in the world. We don’t need to make a living to eat because we thrive off the appreciation and support that we have earned for what our projects have done.
Appreciation, something we all need to live on. Coming from personal and mutual friends’ experiences, this is tough to find in the Chinese community because our culture does not see that being a creative being is successful. Our Chinese ambassadors would rather see a pluthura of doctors or engineers. Artists have it tough already, but to add the lack of appreciation from your own community? That’s really disheartening.
Let me tell you all of my goal as a filmmaker. Asian Americans, or people with oppressive parents, have it tough while growing up. We’re pressured to study hard in hopes to become doctors, engineers, business execs, or lawyers. Some of us are pressured to do creative things too such as dance, piano, violin, or orchestra yet our parents don’t want us to make a living off of them. But even outside of the family, the community stereotypes us as academically smart. As a filmmaker I hope to bring the confidence and appreciation that is missing in our Asian communities to show that we as Asian Americans can be creative.
I remember in a class we were killing time by watching YouTube videos of our favorite under appreciated musicians. I chose a David Choi song to play. As the video was playing, I can hear behind me some guys making fun of the fact he was an Asian hipster. I can’t tell you all how much people doubt my creativity in classes and how disheartening it is. But I never give up because of my mission to help bring confidence to the rising artist, especially in Asian communities.
What I’m hoping for in this blog post is to inspire you the reader to support friends and family that are artists. We have it hard already living in a career of rejection and just ask for a bit of appreciation for the things we create for you all.
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