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This is What Being Asian in America is Really Like 

Growing Up Asian in America Taught Me What It Felt Like To Have a Society Want to Erase Your Existence

umair
Mar 21, 2021
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Image Credit: Megan Varner

What is it like, you might wonder, after the horrific racist massacre in Atlanta, being Asian in America? What does it feel like? What is the lived experience?

OK, let me tell you. There aren’t very many Asians in American public life at all, and I suppose in some small way that I’m one —as a South Asian American. So in the broa…

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