"Clustering" and "sorting" is the whole basic way humans work Asians were about 5.6% of the US population in the last census, it doesn't mean in any random group of 20 you'll find one Asian, and in fact you'll find lots of groups of 20 that are ALL Asianshttps://twitter.com/transwwx/status/1302907975846301697 …
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(If you actually end up moving there for some godforsaken reason and actually are the one Asian in a group of 19 other white people on a regular basis, it is not fun It is in fact highly psychologically taxing, even if you don't admit it to yourself at first)
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Anyway I think people get this when it comes to race, they just mess up when they think about "LGBTQ issues", because many people are still focused on coming out stories
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The media still portrays the idea of being queer like it's something that randomly strikes one of the "normal people you hang out with" like lightning, and the episode is about dealing with that great big shock Then nothing else changes, because they're a side character
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The idea that there's an entire life to be lived after coming out and that someone might make a whole bunch of life decisions based on having come out is still foreign to many cishet writers
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Iirc there were actual groups of Chinese Americans who specifically organized immigration by new Chinese people to areas without significant Chinese American communities to avoid this, for a number of reasons, but that was necessary precisely bc clustering happens naturally
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And I mean, when my people are like ~2% of the country but ~10% of NYC that necessarily means there’s a large swathe of rarefaction in America
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My daughter went to an anti racism camp at age 9 called mosaic project, here in the Bay Area. Her roommate there was Vietnamese and when kids were asked to raise their hand if they were part of a racial or ethnic minority she did. My daughter was puzzled and asked me - mom...
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