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May-lee Chai
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·May 14, 2021

The Emotional Toll of Enduring Anti-Asian Attacks

Enough is enough. — It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon for a walk at Ocean Beach in San Francisco when a white man came running at my elderly father and me. He waved his arms, gesturing at us, and started shouting. “Oh no,” I thought. “He’s going to try to shove my father.” I…

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The Emotional Toll of Enduring Anti-Asian Attacks
The Emotional Toll of Enduring Anti-Asian Attacks
Stopasianhate

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ZORA

·Sep 23, 2020

What Makes a ‘Real’ American?

Moving beyond the assumption that all Asian Americans are immigrants — When asked at one of his press events if he’d heard the assertion that Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris was not eligible to serve, President Donald Trump replied with this: “But that’s a very serious, you’re saying that, they’re saying that she doesn’t qualify because she wasn’t born in…

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What Makes a ‘Real’ American?
What Makes a ‘Real’ American?
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May-lee Chai

May-lee Chai

155 Followers

Author of Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories, winner of the American Book Award. Bylines in Kenyon Review Online, Paris Review Online, Seventeen +

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