Growing up, living your life and just being Asian in America, you will inevitably have encounters, big and small, that smack you upside the head and remind you of a hard truth: you are different. Well, hell, everybody's different. But the hard truth of these encounters -- whether it's a kid making "ching chong" eyes at you on the playground, or someone taking a baseball bat to your head -- is that there are those who perceive you as different. And that difference, to them, makes you something other than human.
In this piece for The Daily Pennsylvanian, graduate student Dephanie Jao describes a recent seemingly innocuous street encounter where she, as a person of Asian descent, was dehumanized: Hunting Asians.
Basically, a Drexel University sorority recently held some kind of scavenger hunt event where one of required items was to "hook up with three Asians." Yeah. So on a Sunday night, Dephanie unexpectedly had to deal with some assholes:
