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"You speak English very well." It might seem like a compliment, but to the recipient, the underlying message can be: You are a perpetual foreigner in your own country. TC psychologist Derald Wing Sue -- featured this week's in "Mini Moments with Big Thinkers" on the TC homepage -- has shown that such unintended "microagressions" can cause greater harm than overt racism.