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Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.

My grandparents bowed to the Americans and sought to learn from them. My parents sought to be them.

The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.

We all, to some degree, absorb the mythologies around us, our vision refracted by the prisms of our particular time and place.

Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don't realize that any burrowing is going on at all.

I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about race. To my mind, it was more about telling stories of people who existed outside the mainstream's field of vision. Invisible people.

Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with.

You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.

In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.

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