During a church potluck dinner, a white father sits with his child, opposite an Asian American woman who is eating her food with chopsticks.  The father picks up a pair of chopsticks and starts to eat with them, saying to his child, "See, Americans can eat with chopsticks too."

Question for the reader: How do you imagine the Asian American woman
feels when she hears the father's lesson to his son?

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