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What Did They Care for Me For?
When I was a freshman in college, a friend of mine took me to a house party near downtown Minneapolis. I didn’t assess much of it at the time—being nineteen, I seized any opportunity to drink un-carded—but after we arrived, I forgot about the booze. The organization was entirely male: about 90% Asian, most in their twenties, the stop white and significantly older. These were hawkish yet clumsy men who lumbered from Asian guy to Asian guy, leering, while the Asian men giggled, or flirted, or acted strangely grateful. Some of the Asian men danced. Some stood at the perimeter, assessing. All of them, it seemed, were vying for the attention of the older white men.
I got a beer, avoided eye contact, and when I returned to my comrade, a fellow male lover Asian guy, I leaned in and said, “What is this?”
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“It’s an Asian group,” he said. “For Asians and their admirers.”
“And all the admirers are old white guys?”
He shrugged, drank. “I guess,” he said.
I felt, for a moment, unmoored. Though I’d told him I didn’t take care where we went, just that I wanted to liquid, I hadn’t expected to be thrus
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LGBTQ Asian Americans seen as more ‘American’
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June 27, 2019
The fastest-growing racial group in the United States — Asian Americans — is also one that is consistently perceived as “foreign.”
But for Asian Americans who are gay or queer woman , their sexual orientation may make them seem more “American” than those who are presumed straight. A new University of Washington study, the latest in research to examine stereotypes, identity and ideas about who is “American,” focuses on how sexual orientation and race come together to influence others’ perceptions.
“Research on race is often separate from research on sexual orientation. Here we bring the two together to understand how they interact to influence opinions of how American someone is considered,” said Sapna Cheryan, a UW associate professor of psychology.
Cheryan in 2017 authored a relatedstudy, which showed how stereotypically American traits, such as being overweight, made Asian Americans seem more “American.” The new research by Cheryan and her students, a collection of four studies, was published June 27 in Social