Overweight Asian-Americans Are Seen as More ‘American,’ Study Finds

By artappraiser on Thu, 08/03/2017 - 11:07pm |

[....] “We found that there was a paradoxical social benefit for Asian-Americans, where extra weight allows them to be seen as more American and less likely to face prejudice directed at those assumed to be foreign,” said Sapna Cheryan, an author of the study and an associate professor of psychology at the University of Washington, where the research was conducted.

But it isn’t simply that heavier people are seen as more American: The authors did not find the same effect for whites, blacks or Latinos. Instead, they suggest, assumptions about where Asian-Americans come from seem to play a role [....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/science/overweight-skinny-asians-americans.html