Discrimination

Whites see us Asians as separate categories based on skin colour - Chinese, Vietnamese, Malays, Indians, Indonesians, Africans. That's actually quite simplistic. Being Asians, we tend to see other things as well.

Especially Malaysians. Common misconceptions made by some white folks:

All Malaysians are Malays.
All Chinese come from China.

So Malaysian Chinese like myself get discriminated against because we look like mainland Chinese. We do NOT look like them. And more importantly, we don't sound a bit like them when we talk. At least we don't mangle English that badly.
Ah well, the price we pay for coming overseas.