Kart racer game.
Karthik, tell me if I did answer the question.
As Karthick says, some of the rhetoric and some of the images of Asian Americans is that we are a highly educated--
Khenpo Karten Rinpoche has an illustrious career, having spent many of his years in personal retreat, some
Like Mario Kart , that was one.
And I remember Vincent Kartheiser and I were sitting and chatting, and we were looking around the cast trying to figure out
And then Karthick Ramakrishnan is an associate dean of the UC Riverside School of Public Policy and professor of public policy and political science.
Definitely was a very successful kart driver.
But you were talking about Mario Kart .
Because it was my go-kart number, as you guys saw.
So he bought a go-kart .
It's cheaper than going go kart racing and can make people feel good, like, yea, let's just come up with a bunch of ideas together.
So please welcome Jennifer and Karthick to the stage.
And this gets to another point that Karthick and I found in our data that we, actually, we wrote about in an op-ed, which is that when
And so this is something that Karthick and I are working on.
And this is a theme that Karthick and I will continue to speak about.
But one of the things that Karthick and I will write about, and are writing about, is that in some ways, when you're
And they had-- I think it was Mario Kart .
Caine also saved up for his first go-kart , His first car.
But I definitely think my little son is also karting now, and who knows if he's going to be good enough over the longer
Thank you, Karthick. I love that he added she-roes to the hero label.
And then he ran with that and he ended up getting so excited about "Mario Kart " that he painted his whole TV at his home at eight years old,
you know he's telling me what's wrong with his go-kart and he had no idea but he was pretty dead on on what he was
knew we wanted to have this world of Sugar Rush that was a candy kart racing world, game world.
My sister destroys me in Mario Kart .
cart good so we got good thank you for being honest so Sims and Mario Kart are two of the
Susie's name is synonymous with breaking boundaries from a record breaking career in karting to becoming the first woman in 22 years
And why that's important, as Karthick mentioned, 2/3 of the Asian American population is foreign born.
It's When I became naturalized-- I don't even know if Karthick knows this story.
And I fell in love with the sport and started racing go karts and here we are at Google.
Well, I started racing go-karts when I was 10 years old.
So this entire blog was just this guy basically going insane, like as soon as Mario Kart came out and people could play as Bowser, society fell apart.
"When I was shown this article about how Bowser has been the problem of our society ever since he has appeared in Mario Kart ,
I have a Wii U. There's no doubt that Mario Kart 8 is fantastic.
The day that my daughter beat me in Mario Kart was the day that I knew I should hang it up.
Hi, everyone. My name is Karthik Lavangu.
I mean, just to look at this audience is kind of interesting because Karthick and I were remarking that this is a talk about Asian
Back in 2011, people thought our founder, Tom Kartsotis, was crazy.
And so with that in mind, I'd like to introduce Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, who is visiting us here from his center down in Pacific Grove.
She was about, at the time, probably 15 years older than I was and she was the only kart driver
And now you done beat up Bowser, you know what I'm saying, and you and the princess is off to "Super Mario Kart ."
What was a game that you really-- Well, I played "GoldenEye," "Mario Kart ," "Smash Brothers."
So LEGOs, Nerf gun, and go-kart .
We'd, you know, explore the woods, we'd build go-karts , we'd, you know, salvage old pieces of electronics and build you what we thought were
And here with us today we have two of the principal investigators and researchers from the NAAS, Jennifer Lee and Karthick Ramakrishnan.
Since I'm running out of time, actually, this is perfect, I'm going to hand it back over to Karthick who's going to talk about the presidential vote choice.