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As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.

— David Henry Hwang

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

— Ferdinand Marcos

I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?

— Chad Hugo

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.

— Charles Horton Cooley

Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.

— Jess Row

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.

— Jim Garrison

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

— Martin Yan

When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea of an Asian American movement or an Asian American thrust in this country was unthinkable.

— Grace Lee Boggs

If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

— Karan Mahajan

✗Opposing Perspectives

Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.

— Dat Nguyen

If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.

— Leonard Lauder