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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Asian-American and my husband is caucasian.  Our kid goes to an elementary school in N. Arlington.  At the kindergarten open house last year, I was shocked to see that my kid was the only kid "of color" in his class.  The other parents and kids were all lovely, so I didn't think the racial disparity mattered at the time.  Sadly, though, my kid came home from school and made comments about how he "didn't like [his] look" and why couldn't he look more like his dad.  It was heartbreaking.  Diversity actually does matter -- at least seen through the eyes of a minority kid.

And as to the generalizations re: Asians in Arlington?   I went to Harvard and Yale for college/law school, and our household income is in the 7-figure range.  The few other Arlington Asian families I've met (through my kid's school) have similar backgrounds, actually.[/quote]

Another Asian-American woman married to a Caucasian man.  One of our kids goes to a FCPS elementary and there aren't very many Asians at all.[/quote]

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