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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.

— Bharati Mukherjee

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

— Ami Bera

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

— Karan Mahajan

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

— Chloe Bennet

Unexpectedly, I'm here now, so I need to let all the U.S. marketers know that Asians are not different. We are all the same.

— Psy

What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'

— Cush Jumbo

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

— Bob Dole

What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.

— Roxane Gay

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

— Tim Wise

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, because I didn't feel safe coming out with it. I didn't feel that the market would really accept me. I think I felt it's time to start bringing in an Asian-American point of view.

— Tess Gerritsen

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

— Toni Morrison