A recent survey indicates that many Asian-Americans feel excluded from what is perceived as a "true" US identity. Individuals like Matt King, despite being born and raised in the US, experience a sense that mainstream society does not fully recognize them as bona fide citizens, prompting them to define their own American identity.

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. “You’ll always get ... a sprinkling of this ‘you’re not truly American’,” the 34-year-old resident of Brooklyn, New York, said, prompting him to claim his own definition. “To me, being an American.....