though this rejection obviously hurt Liu, he felt the girls' being white was the reason for his disadvantage of romance. Liu used his advantage of smartness to claim that he was uninterested in those girls due to their being "subpar, whose small-mindedness and veiled prejudice made them unworthy" to him (pg.43).
             One subject that was spoken often by Liu was assimilation. Liu says " I was raised, in short, to assimilate, to claim this place as mine"(pg.36), he goes on to say that his parents did not want him to act American, they wanted him to be
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