Topic: “Where Are You From?”

Overview

Dr. Amit Sethi graduated from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education College of Dental Surgery, Mangalore, India, with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree in 2000 and subsequently completed his Masters in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Manipal University College of Dental Sciences in 2007.  Read more here.

“Where are you from actually?”- this was the second time the new Asian American Phd student had told the Professor where she “was from”. Such and many similar interactions happen on our campuses every day and constitute “micro-aggressions”. These are often not overt displays of discrimination and in most cases may be unintentional. International students and scholars often reconcile these incidents as a price of getting to stay and study in the United States.