![]() ![]() ![]() I didn't understand how an Asian man could be so liked by people outside of his own ethnicity. My mom kept on pulling me out of schools and putting me in new ones to help me find a way. I was a failure at meeting friends and being part of a social community. Fast forward to middle school and high school. If someone makes fun of you, you walk away. She was always trying to protect me by saying, "Just don't rock the boat." It is an obedience thing. My mom was trying to raise me in a culturally Japanese way. It was definitely my outlet before I found music.Īs an Asian American growing up in a community that is 96 percent white, I was always trying to find ways to understand how to fit in and how to be a part of a different culture. ![]() I was raised into the skate and surf culture. ![]() When I was one year old, my mom wanted to go to the other side of the country, so we plopped down in Dover Shores, a suburb of Newport Beach. My mom came from Japan at a very young age to help my father, who started Benihana's in New York. Edited for clarity by the National Museum of American History, August 2018. Excerpted from an interview with the National Museum of American History, February 10, 2018. Steve Aoki, DJ, producer and entrepreneur. ![]()
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