Too Many Asians at this School: Racialized Perceptions and Identity Formation is an eye-opening research article written by Jenny Tsai. Basically, her findings suggest that we like being white. White is the new pink! Acting white is good. It’s cool and it’s fitting in. Acting foreign is FOBby and unsocialized. So how does one go about proving ones whiteness? Date a white person, have lots of white friends and curse at your parents.

After reading this article I immediately did a mental self assessment of my friends y’know, to see how well I do on this white continuum. Let’s see… 4 Asians (ooh off to a bad start), 1 black, 1 white! YESS!!, 1 Latina. That’s it?? I dunno where that puts me but I’m off to go make some more white pals. One is not enough! Especially since there’s no such thing as too much of a good thing.

Update: I emailed Jenny for her article and she directed me to this link. It’s free, in PDF if anyone’s interested.