Stop Telling Me Your Manicurist is Vietnamese - So is Mine!

How MicroAggressions Hurt All of Us

Notes to Readers: My hope in writing about this topic is to raise awareness and broaden our understanding (including my own) of the affected communities and not meant as an indictment or any kind.

What are some examples of racial microaggressions and why I want my white brothers and sisters to know about them? In this series, I’d like to explore this topic and what makes these seemingly innocent gestures or words so damaging to people or color

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Hoàng Chi Trương Smith

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Speaker & Author of TigerFish, a Vietnamese Refugee Memoir and Advocate for Refugees, Immigrants and People of Color. https://www.chibeingchi.com/

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