Using the Common Ingroup Identity Model and Berry’s acculturation framework, this inquiry explores the effects of language proficiency, communication anxiety, and cultural identity perceptions on stereotypes and intergroup attitudes in the American–Chinese contact context. It is disclosed that perceived English proficiency of a Chinese contact had notable indirect impact on affective and behavioral stances toward Chinese via American participants’ perceptions of their contact’s host and home culture identification and communication anxiety. Perceived English proficiency indirectly influenced solely positive stereotypes via the Chinese contact’s perceived home culture identification.