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Many Asian-Americans feel excluded from โ€˜trueโ€™ US identity, survey finds

Matt King, a 34-year-old graphic designer living in New York, has long grappled with his identity as the son of a Canadian-Chinese mother and white father. Despite being born in the US and raised in Los Angeles, he is aware that mainstream US society does not always see him as a bona fide US citizen. โ€œYouโ€™ll always get ... a sprinkling of this โ€˜youโ€™re not truly Americanโ€™,โ€ the 34-year-old resident of Brooklyn, New York, said, prompting him to claim his own definition. โ€œTo me, being an American...