I grew up as the only Asian kid in a small Western Euro town. Or village, really. Very old, very small, cows and chickens. And for a while I played handball as a child which was the only team sport close to us. But I totally sucked, just bad at sports. The others were nice to me, tho. I can't complain about that. I don't have any reason to blame them for anything. It just felt depressing after a while to treated with this kind of friendliness; the kind of friendliness you would treat some seriously disabled person with, someone you gotta have pity with, who decreases your performance but you wanna be nice to. So after a while I quit.