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Asian Americans
Good Americans
Season 1
Episode 3
During the Cold War years, Asian Americans are simultaneously heralded as a Model Minority and targeted as the perpetual foreigner. It is also a time of bold ambition, as Asian Americans aspire for the first time to national political office and a coming culture-quake simmers beneath the surface.
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At the turn of the new millennium, the U.S becomes more diverse, yet more divided.
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During a time of war, a young generation fights for equality and claim a new identity.
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An American-born generation straddles their country of birth and their parents’ homelands.
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In an era of exclusion and U.S. empire, new immigrants arrive and adapt to life in America