I don't know how pervasive it is, but I remember noticing this in myself in middle school. I think it's problematic, at least as it worked with me, and possibly as much as considering American-born Asians "foreign."
Whereas, as Yoon said somewhere else, no one ever, ever asked why all the white kids (to use white to group all people who look like it, no matter what they self-identify as) sat together.
One of the best things to come out of a high school assembly on race was a black girl who pointed this out. "A lot of white kids keep asking why all the black kids sit together in the cafeteria -- well, how come the white kids sit together?"
Sidenote: the white kids did sit together in my high school's cafeteria, but the Asian kids didn't.
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I don't know how pervasive it is, but I remember noticing this in myself in middle school. I think it's problematic, at least as it worked with me, and possibly as much as considering American-born Asians "foreign."
Whereas, as Yoon said somewhere else, no one ever, ever asked why all the white kids (to use white to group all people who look like it, no matter what they self-identify as) sat together.
One of the best things to come out of a high school assembly on race was a black girl who pointed this out. "A lot of white kids keep asking why all the black kids sit together in the cafeteria -- well, how come the white kids sit together?"
Sidenote: the white kids did sit together in my high school's cafeteria, but the Asian kids didn't.