Before I was born, my mother was a competitive figure skater. Her days on the ice ended while I was in the oven, but she made sure to instill her love of skating in me at an early age.

We would skate together at local rinks, sure, but the real appreciation for skating came from our tradition of watching the Winter Olympics together, specifically all the figure skating competitions.

So when the news broke that America's Mirai Nagasu landed a triple axel, I freaked out. I watched replay after replay after replay, taking it in. The third woman in history to successfully execute the jump in an Olympic competition, and the first American woman to do so.

But every success is followed by controversy, and Nagasu's epic jump was no exception. In a since-deleted tweet, Bari Weiss of the New York Time's wrote, "Immigrants: they get the job done."

The problem, as many outlets have made clear, is that Nagasu was born in America.

As a result, the internet did its thing and the backlash was swift. Weiss stood by her comments, saying it was a quote from the Broadway play "Hamilton" and that Nagasu's parents are immigrants, so to an extent, she's not wrong.

But that doesn't make her right.

Sure, we can say she was trying to give Nagasu praise for her accomplishment, but Weiss did so not by simply congratulating or celebrating the performance, but by calling out Nagasu as either an outsider herself or the children of outsiders.

And there isn't enough space in one article to explain how and why this is harmful, but Ken Tanaka and Helpmefindmyparents on YouTube put out a video that helps to demonstrate how ignorant and blind comments like these can be.

In short, it makes fun of the "where are you from" game that many non-white people are forced to play in America -- especially Asian-Americans.

I like to consider myself a pro. Let me break down a typical round of the game.

It starts with someone looking at me and asking a variation of, "Where are you from?" to which I'll respond, "Andover." Because I'm from Andover.

This is followed by a confused look, then, "But where are you REALLY from?/Where are your parents from?/Where are your people from?/Where are your ancestors from?" or some other form of the question.

I typically end the match with, "Oh West Korea. It's like South Korea, but on the west side and it doesn't exist."

Game over.

Some people like to say that it's just a lack of awareness, it's harmless, it's an innocent question or whatever.

Maybe. The intention can be amicable, sure.

But it's a reactionary response to the fact that my/our appearance doesn't match the expected mold of "American" so our origin must be from outside the country. Because people who look like us are outsiders.

And that's the key here: by highlighting the immigrant aspect of Nagasu's identity the writer of that tweet immediately marks her as an outsider, as an other.

But stories and experiences like these aren't new, nor do I expect them to end any time soon.

All I do know is that Mirai Nagasu's name will go down in history alongside Michelle Kwan and Kristi Yamaguchi as one of the Asian-American woman that owned the ice.