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 17years 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.

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