There’s a subset of Asian Americans who I swear have something against their immigrant predecessors. I kinda get it because I sensed some of that repulsion against my own Chinese family myself when I was a teenager living in America. In high school, I was made fun of a lot for being an immigrant by the Americanized Asians. It’s just an interesting phenomenon. There’s something about westernizing an Asian that makes you sort of hate your ancestry and anyone associated with it.
Because of this, I felt like I was unfairly bullied in my youth–sorta like my friends and my bullies are one-and-the-same because I guess Asians don’t really get egregiously offensive against each other (i.e. violent). At the end of the day, Asians I think tend to stick together in a necessary, I-love-you-but-hate-you-at-the-same-time kinda way. Let’s be honest, Asians tend to be quite studious and many are pretty smart. The competition is fierce.
The Ivory Tower 
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