I roll my eyes not because I think it's untrue, I roll my eyes because this article has such an unsubtle agenda and uses very atypical stories as if it were the

I roll my eyes not because I think it's untrue, I roll my eyes because this article has such an unsubtle agenda and uses very atypical stories as if it were the typical experience for Chinese overseas while neglecting to include the experience of half the student population and half the ethnic population who choose the West Coast, which has vast communities of Chinese (specifically Chinese going overseas, not just American-born Chinese) who have avoided most of the problems adjusting to American life by creating these cultural enclaves. It's a wholly-different experience on the other side of the country. A lot of Asians living in California long enough forget how white or black the rest of the USA is or forget how much racism there is on Asians once they visit other states. Many people in these embedded communities don't feel forced to choose one set of beliefs over the other as if they are diametrically opposed, but in the case of the article's main character, they deliberately choose the extreme ends.