Some users said they were excluded and bullied because they didn't fit a certain standard.
earlier this month with a caption about what he saw as some of the pitfalls of all-Asian friend groups, it sparked a viral discourse about what some called out as toxicity and bias within some of the communities.
While Vu did not elaborate on what he was referring to, many viewers seemed to instantly understand him. Fellow creators and commenters shared their experiences feeling judged, excluded or bullied because they weren’t “Asian enough.”“There’s a lot of diversity within the Asian American experience.
Kao said he thinks there is a fine line between creating a friend group around shared experiences and exclusion. “I think in their case, there’s a certain Asianness that you have to be,” Mazid told NBC News in a phone interview. Yamazaki said the standard of Asianness described as a prerequisite of these friend groups can perpetuate the model minority myth. The ideal upholds lightness, success and wealth as desirable traits in social settings.
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