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When you're working in front of people who are just like you,

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then usually if they don't laugh at something,

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it's because you didn't write it correctly.

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When you're working in front of an audience

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that is not just like you,

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that doesn't know all of the cultural implications

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of discussions about hair, for example, for Black women,

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or discussions about how men and women

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talk to each other at certain times,

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that might be very different

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based on the culture that you come from,

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so that the jokes may not work,

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or that the exchanges may be confusing to people,

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but I think that's part of what multiculturalism is about,

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that that means that if I go to a theater

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and know this is a Chinese-American play,

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I know I'm not gonna understand everything,

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so I have to work a little harder,

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but the reward is I get to see that ultimately,

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they're gonna be just like me.