“…Potent stereotypes, however, can circumvent such stereotype-disconfirming evidence and continue to affect person perception (Nelson, Acker, & Mains, 1996). In the domain of the foreignness stereotypes, recent research demonstrates that perceptions of Asian people’s American identity can be bolstered if they are depicted as overweight (Handron, Kirby, Wang, Matskewich, & Cheryan, 2017) or gay (Semrow, Zou, Liu, & Cheryan, 2019), although not to the extent that they are considered equivalently American as White people.…”