Also during my exchange year in the United States, Minnesota, in the summer of 1999, I had the opportunity to discover several things about "The American Way of Life". ... They spent their adolescence in great security. ... Mays, changed King's mind about many things especially his future. ... They married 1953 and led a successful marriage. ... They sat down in a lunch bar and refused to move until they were served. ...

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By being persona non grata in both countries, Jian-Wa need have loyalty to neither, and he, as Aihwa Ong might say, becomes a "flexible citizen- [3] able to negotiate transnational culture in a way a rooted, law-abiding, character with a legal visa or green card may not. Within the Chinese diaspora, the unpopularity of many of the People's Republic's domestic policies does not negate deep-seated suspicion of American immigration policies, cultural imperialism, neo-colonial economic programs, militarism and chauvinistic international political positions. ... Unlike Vanishing Son ...

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