I remember me & others #FOBS - Fresh off the boat refugees, were treated with disdain by #Asian folks born here & it confused me a lot, as a little kid. I didn't understand why people who looked like me & my family, seemed to hate & not want to be anywhere around us refugee kids. It took me years to learn that they were so #whitewashed #indoctrinated, they became just as cruel to us as the white racist kids were. I felt sorry for them. I thought - how awful their lives must be, hating their own cultures & ethnicness. I got angry at their actions. I always felt more sorry for those #POC #brainwashed kids, than anger.

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