Sakura of DOOM

I do think it's weird that some of us see/saw Asians as white, definitely. (And, actually, it's probably pretty frustrating, in the way it is to hear men say "Of course women are equal now!" for you & other Asians watching the discussion.) I might have been unclear in my last comment?

I've heard people in Australia say the sorts of things about Asians that I'd never heard about Asians in California--the "taking over, taking our jobs" sorts of things. It threw me for a loop the first few times, because I really hadn't been seeing Asians (especially Asian-Americans) as non-white, and certainly not enough to be a threat in any way. But even when I was in high school, some of my Asian friends & classmates had made comments to the effect that they did feel like part of a minority; the comments just hadn't registered to me at all. I was so caught up in my own perceptions, I didn't even notice how they might see themselves & how they'd interact with the overwhelmingly white media, white standards of beauty, expectations from the larger American community, etc. I didn't think that it'd be at all different from my experience, even when Latino and black Americans obviously experienced America differently.