After going through these My America videos, I found one to be particularly interesting and captivating to me. In FLATLAND by Lauren Yee, performed by Johnny Wu, an Asian-American male named Pao is discussing in front of a class about his Hmong heritage in honor of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage month. He explains it in a way where he believes that not many people know of the Hmong people or that they already have a conceived notion about them. Many Hmong people and other Asian immigrants, live in city environments in hopes to establish close knit ethnic communities. I felt that the character, Pao, represented this young urban Asian-American, who was surrounded by people who were oblivious to the Hmong culture. Even though he is clearly American and most likely grew up in this country, it seems that he wanted to prove his culture to be extremely exotic which was shown when he mentioned it’s popular eating tigers and snakes in his culture, when really it wasn’t. I felt that Pao exaggerated his culture to make it seem like it was really foreign like many people would had expected but really it’s similar to those of other cultures in America. As an Asian-American, I understand the idea of people expecting you to be different and exotic, even though you grew up in America and have been surrounded around many American traditions and ideas. Yet at the same time, I do feel the want to stand out as being different and to teach people about my culture and how it is different from others. There are so many different types of Asian-Americans that have families that come from all over Asia. Even in China, where my family is from, there are different regions that develop different cultures and ultimately are classified as different Chinese people. Even though I live in a city that is so diverse, I still witness encounters where people do group together many Asian cultures as if they were all very similar or if not the same, even though each one is distinct.