Ep. 16: Kunming-native American cowboy Bruce Wang speaks English with perfect Southern accent

<p>Bruce Wang is a Chinese cowboy. Not an ethnically Chinese person that was born in Texas, but someone born and bred in Yunnan, China.</p> <p>He came to the US as a college student. He adopted a Southern accent, started dressing like a cowboy, and started making videos about how cowboys spend their time.</p> <p>We talked about why he decided to become a cowboy, why he felt the cowboy culture reminded him of his hometown of Kunming, how he felt different when speaking a different language, and how he dealt with an identity crisis.</p> <p>We also talked about whether he has encountered acts of racism and racial ignorance, his plans to dedicate his Ph.D. to the intersection of languages and cross-cultural understanding, and more.</p> <p><span data-story-id="story_75e53c0ea6feb23b828597e45c77d6dd" data-room-id="room_79ba3b18bdc34e79d8ed072ae8fb6c5d" data-timestamp="1626407074806" data-text= "Today I'm interviewing my friend Stephen Tse. He is the founder and CEO of a Blockchain project named Harmony. For those new to Crypto and Blockchain, Harmony is a protocol that allows trustless smart contracts. Think of it as a new technology stack on the internet that allows users of computer programs to verify the results by themselves, instead of trusting whoever is serving these programs to the users. At the time of recording, Harmony ranks top 100 in terms of market capitalization for all Cryptos. Stephen also runs a weekly get-together for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Participants are mostly Crypto-centric founders, although not exclusively so. The organization is run a bit like a Christian fellowship, except that people don't get up and take turns to describe their relationship with God. Instead, they take turns to talk about their journey in entrepreneurship. And instead of reading scriptures when they get together, they pitch their businesses, ask for help and share best practices as well as past failures in business. Every time I leave one of these events, I feel thoroughly rejuvenated, and this is all thanks to S