Frank Wu "Yellow"

I believe what Frank Wu is tryin to tell his readers is best portrayed in one of his opening sentences; "The lives of people of color are materially different that the lives of whites, but in the abiding American spirit we all prefer to beleive that our individualism is most important" (415). He is trying to say that people in the United States live different lives even though they tell themselves that they don't.
Wu explains to his readers that he is an Asain American, but is treated very poorly; "I am who other portray me to be rather than how I percieve myself to be" (415). He believes and I agree that "the inalbity to define one's self is the greatest loss of liberty possible" (415). He also tells his readers that people "cannot overcome the stereotype of group identity" (415). He points out in America, when whites are mistreated poorly by other whites, they shake it off. But when a minority is mistreated they bring it upoin them being of that race, because they have no clue if it is really because that or not (416). Wu has had several cases were he is judge by the color of his skin being yellow, and he thinks it is in many cases, hard to fit in in America. He tell his readers that "race is moe than black and white, literally and figurativly" (416). He is trying to prove the act that Asians don't really have a part. He goes on to tell that American means white minority and that withour the rest of the non-white minorites, the equasion is imcomplete (417).
When you see an Asian on the street, do you see an immigrant/tourist or do you automatically see an American?
Do you think that Asain's are mistreated more or less than African Americans in todays socitity?
I personally didn't like some of the things frank Wu was talking about. I felt it more of a paper giving off steem that was build up, more than the fact that Asian Americans are mistreated. I can see where he is coming from though, saying that race isn't just and can't be just black and white. But i also don't like or just didn't understand it properly how he degrated what an American is. We have always called ourselves a melting pot of cultures and races, so that includes Asians. He is saying that American doesn't include everyone. I can see and feel how he felt about the newspaper article but that just doesn't mean we think or them intirearly a different people. I think of Americans as a person who is a citizen of the United States and that is what he should know that most people do too, and not just the thought that they are in the middle of a black and white affair.