But Where Are You Really From?: An Asian-American Struggle

64. I Don't Want to Lean In, I Want to Lie Down


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Have you heard of the "lie flat" or "tang ping" movement in China? It's a movement among young people that first cropped up in April 2021 largely in reaction to China's infamous 9/9/6 culture (working from 9am-9pm, 6 days/week), and has since been reported on widely by western and eastern media. 


Young people are rejecting the ideas they've been sold on what makes for success and happiness - constantly hustling at work to move up the ladder (even at the expense of your personal life and mental well-being), marriage, family, owning property, etc. Instead, they favor living a life in which they are getting by, but not striving for much more. 


In this episode, we dissect what this movement is, we speculate about why it came to be and how prevalent it really is, and we relate the sentiment back to our own struggles in terms of the pressures facing the millennial and Gen Z generations of conforming to a traditional definition of success and happiness. 


We end the episode by postulating what our own definitions of happiness are. 

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