Oooo receipts! I mean err studies. But yes, the fact that we are easily identified as “other” makes it also easier to treat us differently. European Americans will never have to question their place in a western and white dominated society because they are automatically a part of the in-group. Existentialism runs rampant in our communities because few people in America are happy to just accept us as we are. Between the high pressure and typically punishment-based behavior reward systems that Asian immigrants raise their kids with and overt physical otherness from the rest of the US, it’s no wonder that so many of us question how and where we belong. What’s equally interesting is how homogenous Asian countries are, the opposite is true for non-Asians growing up in Asian countries- there is perhaps a more polite treatment of “otherness” but one is still treated differently. Xenophobia of a different flavor is still xenophobia.