Commentary The recent spate of violence against Asian Americans, accentuated by the shootings in Atlanta, which cost eight lives, including six Asian women, among them four of Korean descent, stunned the entire country. It is sending each of us in the Asian American community to search for our true identity and our future in this land we call home. The atmosphere is palpably nervous; a friend living in Atlanta called to inform me that he was planning to move to Thailand for a few years. A glaring absence of an uptick in discrimination cases against Indian-Americans—a major constituent of the Asian-American fabric—suggests the target is not so much “Asian-Americans” but “Asian-Americans with Chinese faces.” Predictably, the rushed conclusion and simplistic generalization that Asian Americans, not Chinese Americans, are the target of the assaults, have brought backlash from certain segments of the Asian community who felt they have been wrongly blamed. …