Natan

MEMORANDUM **

The facts and procedural posture of this case are known to the parties, and we do not repeat them here. Agnes Natan petitions for review of the denial of her applications for asylum and withholding of removal. In the alternative, she requests that Singapore not be designated as an alternative country for removal.

A. Asylum

An applicant may qualify for asylum either because she suffered past persecution or because she has a well-founded fear of future persecution. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.13 (b). Natan, who is ethnic Chinese and Catholic, experienced harassment in Indonesia because of her race and religion. Persecution, however, is “an extreme concept” and “[discrimination on the basis of race or religion, as morally reprehensible as it may be, does not ordinarily amount to persecution within the meaning of the Act.” Mansour v. Ashcroft, 390 F.3d 667, 672 (9th Cir.2004) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). Substantial evidence supports the Immigration Judge’s finding that Natan did not suffer past persecution. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (b)(4)(B).

A well-founded fear of future persecution must be both subjectively genuine and objectively reasonable. See Lolong v.…