For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we asked for strategies to disarm microaggressions. A Columbia University expert offers four tactics.
“I was wondering why you don’t have an accent,” U.S. figure skater Mirai Nagasu recalled a parent asking her at a recent meet-and-greet, after asking if she was from California.Did the person assume all Asians were recent immigrants? Was it naive ignorance or subtle racism?
Although these affronts often come from well-intentioned people, they are draining and have a “macro impact” on our health and well-being, said Sue, a professor at Columbia University who researches microintervention strategies. Derald Wing Sue, a psychology professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, researches on how to respond to racial microaggressions in everyday life.Some microaggressions are too harmful to go unchecked, Sue said.
Dr. Mindy Hoang is a Vietnamese American physician in Ohio and daughter of nail salon business owners.
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