What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag

You don’t like how you look, how you sound. You think your Asian features are undefined, like God started pinching out your features and then abandoned you. You hate that there are so many Asians in the room. Who let in all the Asians? you rant in your head. Instead of solidarity, you feel that you are less than around other Asians, the boundaries

To make myself, and by proxy other Asian Americans, more human and a little more relevant to American culture.

In my search for an honest way to write about race, I wanted to comfort the afflicted, but more than that, I wanted to afflict the comfortable; I wanted to make them squirm in shame, probably because I too identify with the comfortable.

White people were looking at themselves and what their history has wrought, like a domestic animal having its face shoved into its own urine.”