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A primary thing I am noticing:

The cities I’ve spent most of my time in are West Coast cities and New York City. This means that I actually haven’t ever been in a place that’s not.. at least 10-60% East Asian? Obviously I don’t consciously think about this daily, and it’s not a ‘I need that environment’ thing. It’s more that those places have long histories of East Asian migration and strong local communities.

Albuquerque and Atlanta have been the first places I’ve visited where that’s not the case.

I don’t feel like I consciously seek out East Asian food or groceries, but they were always *around me* whereas here I guess if I lived here I would have to drive really far to go somewhere in particular.

My friends in Oakland, CA ofte say ‘when someone said they were made fun of for their food in school I literally have no idea what they mean’ and this is one facet of it.