Imagine a 27-year-old woman, born and raised in California. She went to college in the Midwest and now lives in New York City.
After work, you can find her at the neighborhood Pilates studio. She spends Saturdays and Sundays watching football and summers on a river in Montana, fly fishing with her parents.Are you picturing a white woman?A few years ago, the person I just described would have appreciated the assumption.
After all, she spent so much of her life wanting to fit a “whiter” image, although she does—I promise—love Montana and Pilates.But she is also a third-generation Chinese- and Korean-American woman who is just beginning to realize how much she unconsciously suppressed her Asian heritage.