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I liked this article a lot, not just because it was short but it got to the point and I was suprised at what Asian Americans went through and I never realized it. The author of this article says at the bottom of the first paragraph that "in the abiding American spirit we all prefer to believe that our individualism is most important". We all believe this is true, in one form or another. Even if you have never thought about it before, we all like to be thought of as individuals, not stereotyped into a certain group because of our race. The author also talks about the bus ride and how on the bus blacks sat in the back and whites sat in the front and Wu says that his friend avoided the bus for this reason. Where was he to sit? He says he was certainly not African American but also not white and he didnt want them to make a distinction for him. The author also hits on another topic that is very common, the comment "it remided me of you" normally that can be either a good or bad thing usually situation related but Wu was being compared because of his ethnicity. Wu says it didnt matter if they were Korean, Asian, Chinese, Japanese etc the consensus was the same he was being stereotyped into a group, he even said when people would see him they would strike a karate pose automatically making a distinction about him. After reading this article I can honestly say that I never thought about Asian Americans as having to be put into a certain race. I never acknowledged or even knew their struggles as a race because I always assumed that "race" in the United States was based primarily on black and white and it is not that I didnt understand so much as I sadly didnt think it was a big issue but that we all just fit together.