There wasn’t much of a lesson plan and I felt the teacher just talked a lot on a really personal level. I felt really uncomfortable when she made assumptions about how I identify when I mentioned certain languages I speak, and asked ignorant questions about what my “real” native language is (I’m American and it’s English. I couldn’t be a native Chinese speaker if I tried and can list several languages I speak better than Chinese). At the end of the lesson, she announced to me, “I have a Vietnamese student now!” as if that had anything to do with me. It felt like she was lumping all Asian-looking people together; it was really ignorant and racist. It would have been like me saying, “I have a lesson with an Italian person now!” I felt super uncomfortable. There was a distinct lack of professionalism, structure, and common courtesy, and I felt very much that, had I not been Asian American, I would not have had to endure certain parts of this experience.
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