I found this blog Let It Be Some Other 'Asian' by Andrew Lam, a Vietnamese American. His sharp observation makes me think.
I was among those Chinese who were anxiously hoping that the gunman be non-Chinese. I checked the bbs constantly Monday night looking for cues that exempt my ethnical group from such horific deed. At a time like this, we were even ready to pin point the differences in name spelling between Taiwanese, Hongkongnese, and those from Mainland, hoping that in the worst scenario, our smaller peer group can be "clean".
Andrew Lam's article reminds us that it was the deep fear of ethnic stereotyping and the ethnic hatrid that will be inflicted on the good citizens that is behind our worries.
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