I was looking forward to experiencing this diversity of moving away from “white systems.” But, Singapore is 74% ethnically Chinese and I ended up in another supremacist system instead. In 2010, my partner and I moved to Singapore, which touts its vibrant and diverse cultural heritage and prides itself on being a good example of multiculturalism at work. Bush, 9/11, the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina-further cemented my outsider perspective my reaction to these events was different from the mainstream white reactions I was observing, and I smugly embraced this binary-of whiteness as the sole oppressor, and of my non-whiteness.
The horrific events of the decade-the “elections” of George W. I understood where waves of South Asians stood in the context of the official American story, and rejected one-dimensional narratives of exceptionalism. As a young adult occupying people of color spaces in the early 2000s, I read The Karma of Brown Folk, a seminal text by Vijay Prashad educated myself about rarely taught South Asian American histories and palled around with fighters and feminists.
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