“…Such aggregation in the AAPI category legitimizes the misconception of homogeneity among AAPIs (Hollinger, 2006), and can mask important and meaningful heterogeneities within both communities (Hall, 2015). That is, despite the frequent conflation of NHPIs with Asian Americans as AAPI, their relations to the United States and their experiences fundamentally and substantially differ from Asian Americans (Hall, 2015; Tiongson, 2019). For instance, while Asian Americans' “incorporation” to the United States have been predominantly “controlled” by series of racist nativism that shaped exclusionary immigration laws (although U.S. imperialism also contributed to “push” factors for Asian immigration; Lee, 2015); NHPIs have been “incorporated” into the United States as a result of American imperialism and colonization throughout the Pacific, beginning with the United States' acquisition of Guam, Sāmoa, and the Marshall Islands after the 1898 Spanish‐American War (Spickard et al, 2012).…”