Animation Race Card, Till recently...

I always felt like the online international Asian art community took me less seriously than 100% as an artist, ironically enough, seemingly because my genes are not 100% Asian. The harder I worked, the more I realized it had more to do with international reputation and stature in the Asian and American communities than ANY kind of artwork I could ever produce. No matter what I did, and STILL do, no matter what I draw it will probably never be taken seriously by white artists OR Asian artists. Many of elite artists despise me and my so-called ":big ego" purely because I don't fully belong to any one specific culture, but am instead a new  generation of cultural artists: The Mutts. The Half-Bloods. The Mixed Bloods. The Multiracial artists.

But yeah, I've always got that kind of reaction from the fans. THEY HATE IT. And I mean,  the REALLY hate it, American and Japanese anime fan alike.

To Americans, my style is "too detailed, too Asian."

To ASIANS, my style is "too simple, too white, too abstract, too American and Western"

I get rejected enough equally by most artists in  BOTH countries

The RACE CARD has always influenced my popularity, or LACK THEREOF

Fine, I can accept this. You'll never accept me Asia. Great....

I have yet to see if the race issue affects my employment status in animation and comics.

I started off in this world with NOTHING. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Ground Zero. No money. No family. No friends. No education. No overwhelming talent. No connections. NOTHING!!!!

Whatever legacy I leave on this earth at the end of my life, whatever revolution and empires I start in art, literature, comics, animation, computers, technology, and media business will have  been 100% self made. Built from the ground up.  Built by an Builder and Architect who had to build his empire using NOTHING to aid him at the beginning. Any money I earn from my career, any fame I achieve, any power I have, CAME FROM ME. I inherited a big fat NOTHING from my family resource and connections-wise. Even my genetic lineage is questionable. But it does exist somewhere, far off in posterity records of future researchers and outer space.