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nodded at the athletes, all of whom
were white. Caucasians, he said, seem
to be “less afraid of other people thinking
that what they said was too loud or
too stupid.” Mike was frustrated by the
superficiality of dining-hall conversation,
and by the “bullshitting” that often
substituted for class participation in
freshman seminars. He was spending
his free time mostly with other Asians,
partly because they had “the same level
of outgoingness” he did. The non-Asians
tended to make him feel as if he
had to “be really hyped up or excited,
even though that might not be true to
who I am.”
“My dorm has four Asians in it, out
of fifty kids,” he told me. “So I feel
more comfortable around them. There’s
this one guy called Brian, and he’s
pretty quiet. I can tell he has that Asian
quality where you’re kind of shy, and I
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