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Eric Liu
American
Writer
Born:
1968
About
America
National
People
White
You
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Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.
Eric Liu
You
Experience
People
Become
National
Thirty
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
States
Immigrants
Oath
Citizens
Citizenship
Someone
Week
Countries
Became
Stirring
Conference
American
Room
Organize
United
Ever
United States
Swore
Watched
Last
We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.
Eric Liu
Time
Great
Religion
Country
Live
Great Country
About
Get
Again
What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.
Eric Liu
Together
Celebrate
Diversity
Become
Everyone
Our
Way
Something
More
Potential
True
Tent
True Potential
How
Than
Century
Create
Should
Twenty-First
Bring
Need
Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
Eric Liu
History
Country
Systematic
Throughout
Course
Been
Efforts
Official
Create
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
Eric Liu
Equality
Law
Simple
Simple Idea
Scheme
Idea
Force
End
In The End
If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.
Eric Liu
Work
Vote
Work Hard
Country
Build
Our
Those
Citizens
Citizenship
More
Attain
Undocumented
Sustain
Us
Should
Hard
Who
Serve
You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.
Eric Liu
You
Citizen
Live
Way
Those
Papers
Citizenship
Like
Without
Isolate
Persecute
American
Just
Want
Defend
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
Eric Liu
Rights
Conservatives
Progressives
Immigrants
Citizenship
More
Withhold
Than
Forget
Thing
Set
In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
Eric Liu
Just Be
Our
About
Laws
Habits
Catalog
New
Also
End
Privileges
Duties
Just
Listing
Movement
In The End
Which
Convey
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
Eric Liu
Reality
Though
Tempted
Something
Entry
Merit
Institution
Like
Reduce
Concrete
Score
Exists
May
Depends
Want
Mean
Meaning
Measurable
Who
Sat
Deserves
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.
Eric Liu
Great
Family
Minority
Poverty
Living
Instead
Mainstream
Stereotypes
Tiger
Fit
Model
American
Asian
Far
Numbers
Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.
Eric Liu
Game
Debate
National
Other
Our
Locked
Were
Loss
America
Precisely
Proceeds
Gain
Which
China
Much
Zero-Sum
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.
Eric Liu
Made
Stage
Hundred
Jobs
One-Man
Cost
Shadowy
Only
Performer
Ecstasy
Steve
Steve Jobs
Couple
Because
Does
Arresting
iPhone
Dollars
Depicted
China
Mike
Show
Products
Agony
Company
Why
Apple
After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.
Eric Liu
World
Glasses
First
Big
Style
Frames
Entered
Ate
Poster
Insisted
Having
Wire
Had
Bought
First World
Same
Jackson
Gold
Candy
Wanted
After
Which
Bar
Double
Across
Bars
Series
Phase
World Series
Watching
Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.
Eric Liu
You
Complicated
Simple
About
Also
Identify
Identity
America
Who
Whom
Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.
Eric Liu
Today
Few
Other
Athletes
Only
Week
Leading
Contemplate
Talented
Sport
Surely
Arrival
His
Pro
American
Any
Asian
Asian-American
Professional
NBA
Jeremy
Career
The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.
Eric Liu
Ugly
Push
Obvious
Repeal
Amend
Behind
Fourteenth
It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.
Eric Liu
Out
Judges
Robots
Permissible
Cameras
Traffic
Umpires
Fixed
Turns
Monitoring
Humans
Zone
Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.
Eric Liu
Politics
Game
Sometimes
Word
Lesson
Took
Progressives
Only
Fellow
Wonder
Listen
Elections
Away
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.
Eric Liu
Health
You
Win
Smart
Care
Value
Think
Favor
Moral
Folks
Seem
Voters
Messages
Health Care
Metaphors
Get
Affordable
Affordable Health Care
Just
Etc
Then
Your
Appeal
Many
Describing
Right
Start
You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.
Eric Liu
Freedom
You
Mistake
Opportunity
Down
Clarity
Followers
About
Something
Purpose
He
Part
Feel
Days
Like
Ticking
Makes
His
Than
Just
Cannot
Story
Bush
Themselves
Larger
Believes
Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.
Eric Liu
Today
Government
Understanding
Past
Our
System
Public
Low
The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.
Eric Liu
Gesture
Boomers
Those
Bad
Bad Habits
Habits
Unwind
Modeled
Going
Grand
Set
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
Eric Liu
World
Made
Situation
Saved
Too
Boomers
Given
Rational
Like
Comfort
Were
Accordingly
Behaved
Taught
China
Little
Many
Wholly
Enjoyment
Early
Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.
Eric Liu
People
Better
Young
Guide
Way
Boomers
Purpose
Onstage
Better Way
Like
Call
Greater
Effectiveness
Than
American
Behave
Young People
Them
Meaning
Next
Act
Lives
Grown-Ups
Need
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
Eric Liu
War
Air Force
World
Pilot
Air
Seeing
General
Pictures
Force
Him
Hearing
Up
Nationalist
Grew
Stories
Chinese
Grandfather
Uniform
World War
World War II
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