We suffer from a conspicuous lack of role models and shared causes. This is【B1】______of reason, I think, that many young Asian-Americans continue to assimilate quietly into American【B2】______as doctors, scientists and engineers. Our struggles are individual and familial but【B3】______communal or political. Ours is a frustratingly limited version of the American Dream. While I can strive for【B4】______into Harvard and become the talk of the Korean mothers in my hometown, God forbid that I aim much further and higher than that【B5】______fame and influence as a writer, an intellectual or perhaps president of the United States. I wish more than anything else to feel like part of something【B6】______than myself and my personal ambitions, part of a larger culture. Unfortunately, by coming to America, my parents【B7】______the cultural legacy they would have passed on to me. When I visited【B8】______last summer, found that I was【B9】______and chastised by many people for never learning how to speak Korean and for turning my【B10】______on their culture. Taxi drivers would【B11】______to stop for me and my Korean-American friends because they knew from our【B12】______where we had come from. And【B13】______, in spite of the 17 years I have spent in this country, I feel more acutely conscious than ever of the fact that I am not completely【B14】______Recently, a black man called me a " little Chinese faggot" in a mens room, and a【B15】______woman on the street told me to "go back to Japan". Americans, I think, feel a(n) 【B16】______to keep both Asians and Asian-Americans at a sociological, philosophical and geographical distance. With【B17】______numbers of Asian-American【B18】______applying to top colleges, many white students have begun to complain about Asian-American【B19】______and competitiveness, calling us "Asian nerds". Many Americans consider this as part of a larger "Asian invasion" associated【B20】______Japans export success in America.
This is【B1】______of reason, I think,
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