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Asian Americans have been tweeting their own stories of prejudice and discrimination after a New York Times editor shared that he had been told to "go back to China" while with his family over the weekend.

Deputy metro editor Michael Luo recounted his experience in an open letter that published on Sunday, writing that he was with family and friends on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, having just come out of church, when a woman who was blocked by them and a baby stroller made the remark.

Well dressed woman on Upper East Side, annoyed by our stroller, yells: "Go back to China...go back to your f---ing country." #thisis2016 — Michael Luo (@michaelluo) October 9, 2016

Luo wrote that he sprinted after the woman, who took out her phone and threatened to call the police. When Luo walked away, she screamed, “Go back to your [expletive] country,” according to his letter.

“I was born in this country,” replied Luo.

“It felt silly,” he wrote. “But how else to prove I belonged?

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“Maybe you don’t know this,” Luo continued, “but the insults you hurled at my family get to the heart of the Asian-American experience. It’s this persistent sense of otherness that a lot of us struggle with every day. That no matter what we do, how successful we are, what friends we make, we don’t belong. We’re foreign. We’re not American.”

I wrote an open letter to the woman who told my family to go back to china today. https://t.co/dPOb7UR9Ef — Michael Luo (@michaelluo) October 10, 2016

Asian Americans quickly took to Twitter to share their own experiences and offer emotional support. Several elected officials also offered their support.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio weighed in, tweeting, “Shouldn't have to affirm it, but EVERYONE belongs in NYC.”

@michaelluo - Shouldn't have to affirm it, but EVERYONE belongs in NYC. What doesn't belong here are comments like you heard today. pic.twitter.com/8DvdLgdwhv — Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) October 9, 2016

Some of the tweets from Asian Americans centered on the question of origin.

Thank you, @michaelluo. I really relate to this.

"Where are you from?

"NYC."

"No, where are you really from? China? Korea?"

"Still NYC..." — Hannah Stanke (@hannah_stanke) October 10, 2016

@michaelluo @jaycaspiankang in sixth grade my history teacher sat down at my table while I was reading and asked "What are you?" — JR Robles (@HomelessRobles) October 10, 2016

Other messages recalled instances where people doubted that Asian Americans had English-language names.

@michaelluo introduced myself to a neighbor and she asked, "what's your real name?" elizabeth is my real name. #thisis2016 — Liz Lin (@curiousliz) October 10, 2016

@michaelluo I introduced myself, Kevin, to a woman in line. She said that wasn't my name because we're all named Wang Chang. #thisis2016 — Kevin Lo (@kevinislo) October 10, 2016

Others recounted incidents that they had experienced.

@michaelluo I was eating fried rice at a friend's store. Guy walks in and booms "HOW ABOUT THAT. CHINAMAN EAT'N CHINARICE!" #thisis2016 — Allan Chow (@chowspecial) October 10, 2016

@michaelluo was hit by a shopping cart and told to, 'Speak English' in Target, after being overheard speaking in Cantonese. #thisis2016 — angloyankophile (@angloyankophile) October 10, 2016

Son brought who brought father to the ER saw that I was the doc, told me "go back to Nam," and took him to another ER. I'm Filipino Texan. https://t.co/d7REZNlhFt — Laurence T Gayao老 嘎 (@datutigas) October 10, 2016

New York State Democratic Assemblyman Ron Kim also tweeted in support of Luo.

.@michaelluo @NYTMetro Sorry to hear what happened to your family. Let's work together to root out growing microaggression tow minorities. — Ron Kim (@RonKim40) October 10, 2016

Luo’s open letter about his encounter on the Upper East Side punctuated a week dominated by outrage over a Fox News segment filmed in Manhattan’s Chinatown about the presidential election.

Fox News segment was in the end about this otherization of Asians too. — Michael Luo (@michaelluo) October 9, 2016

Many civil rights organizations and elected officials lashed out at Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters, who appears regularly on “The O’Reilly Factor.” His video clip featured a Japanese man being asked to do karate and an elderly Chinese woman unable to answer a question about the presidential candidates, presumably because of a language barrier.

Luo, in his open letter, said the support he received online was gratifying. But he also noted that he often still feels like an outsider.

“And I wonder if that feeling will ever go away,” he wrote. “Perhaps, more important, I wonder whether my two daughters who were with me today will always feel that way too.”

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