Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1: A Review of East Asian-Anglo Societal and Psychological Themes
Bridgerton Season 4 centers on Sophie Baek, who is an East Asian woman who is also a domestic servant. This archetype is loaded with history and discrimination. It is also insidious and invisible. Invisibility is racially internalized, and the individual ceases to see themselves in the full spectrum of humanhood because their East Asian appearance and societal identity.
The Asian American Life Crisis
Most Asian Americans are taught that it is essential to get the best education possible, obtain a high paying job in a stable career industry, and get married by their early thirties. If that is not too much, they’re also pushed to start having children soon after marriage to prevent a woman’s biological clock from ‘running out’. What is tragic about this trajectory is when Asian Americans can finally experience their adult independence psychologically and financially, they are pressured into giving it up quickly by taking on the enormous responsibility of parenting.
Rebirth of Passion for Asian Americans
I write this post for the Asian Americans, so that they can have a framework and idea for the intergenerational patterns that hold them back and find their autonomy as humans. The ingrained fear and scarcity mindset does not help us fulfill our dreams and support our community. In order to make a difference, we Asian Americans will need to do something different. We can make contributions into industries that meet our passions and support society, rather than lean on a ‘safe’ career that only temporarily pacifies your fear of insecurity. We can explore our inner worlds and emotions as a full human, not as a humanoid playing a role that must be vetted or vetoed by an Asian elder.
On Fear, Ascension, and the State of our Nation
In our world right now, fear is being activated purposely to aggravate and fear is also being activated purposely to trigger the higher ascension of humanity. That means that we collectively, are all facing a challenge. We all must unpack and witness what makes us feel fear, how we feel fear, and how we sit with it or transmute it through holding connection with a Higher light.