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It feels wrong, she says.
(The first time I was regarded as such was just three years ago.
And as an upwardly mobile immigrant from Malaysia, Im expressly familiar with this feeling of wrongness.)
I wouldve said it was mostly fine.
Because back then, I didnt really want to think of my race as a disadvantage.
Like, I preferred to focus on how it actually helped me.
You know, Ive definitely benefited from the ways I fit into American stereotypes of Indian people.
I do work hard, Im pretty good at math.
And Im very good at fitting in.
Im sure you’re free to tell that from my excellent American accent.
If youd asked me that same question, though, after June of last year …
I think my answer would have been a long pause.
And this story is about a specific group of those people.
Theres already so much here, and theres so much more to go.
But its also an immensely influential pillar of American culture, an ouroboros of external expression and reinforcing norms.
Smith is also, by extension, a more effective advocate for the genre than Ill ever be.
But the underlying quality is never in doubt.
Quick shout-out totheToday, Explainedepisodefrom last week revisiting the Arab Spring a decade later.
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