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feel <strong>com</strong>fortable around him for thatreason. I feel like I can be myselfaround him. I don’t have to dosometh<strong>in</strong>g just to look cool, whereasaround a big group <strong>of</strong> people thataren’t Asian or are just really loud, Ifeel like I have to play a role.”Mike sounded dismissive <strong>of</strong> Western<strong>com</strong>munication styles, but he admittedthat he sometimes wished he could benoisy and un<strong>in</strong>hibited himself. “<strong>The</strong>y’remore <strong>com</strong>fortable with their own character,”he said <strong>of</strong> his Caucasian classmates.Asians are “not un<strong>com</strong>fortablewith who they are, but are un<strong>com</strong>fortablewith express<strong>in</strong>g who they are. In agroup, there’s always that pressure tobe outgo<strong>in</strong>g. When they don’t live up toit, you can see it <strong>in</strong> their faces.”Mike told me about a freshmanicebreak<strong>in</strong>g event he’d participated <strong>in</strong>,a scavenger hunt <strong>in</strong> San Francisco that546/929

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