"I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly."
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"I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said."
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"So it may be a language that separates you - again, social networks. But second-generation Asian and Hispanics, second, and third and fourth and so on, they are much more likely to be in integrated churches than are blacks or whites."
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"My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot."
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