Americans perceive overweight Asian people as "less foreign" than skinny Asians
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2Y5ZC)
In Unexpected Gains: Being Overweight Buffers Asian Americans From Prejudice Against Foreigners (Sci-Hub mirror), a paper published in Psychological Science, a group of social scientists from UK and US universities as well as Microsoft evaluated the role that weight plays in the perceptions of people of Asian descent in the USA. (more")