Having grown up as Asian American I am no stranger to microaggressions. There are many stereotypes associated with being asian and i've been called most if not all of them at least once. One microaggression that I have deeply resonated with is the fact that i get the question where am I from or are you chinese when I tell them I'm American. This irks me because can anyone other than white people be Americans. There seems to be a certain representation on what an American is and that includes looking a certain way. If you don't look that way then you are automatically classfied as something other than American. If someone pointed out that one of my comments was a microaggression I would apologize and thereafter control what comes out of my mouth
