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The term "Asian Americans" was coined in 1968. Before then, there were only Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, and others of Asian ancestry in the United States. They have begun settling into the country since mid-nineteenth century, but the group was seen as foreigners. Then in the late 1960s, as part of the upsurge in the self-assertion of marginalized communities, "Asian America" emerged to challenge the stigma of perceptual foreignness. "Asian American" was a claim of belonging, of rootedness, of pride and identity, and history and community; it was also recognition of distinctive cultural achievement.