School, meet Life.

On a different note, and a little bit late, but important nonetheless.

Yet for all our diversity, we share an experience of otherness. The fifth-generation Japanese-American from California, the Hmong refugee in Wisconsin, the Indian engineer in Texas, the Korean adoptee in Chicago and the Pakistani taxi driver in New York — all have at times been made to feel alien, sometimes immutably so.

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But the more important criticism is this: When it comes to race, nuance matters.