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In reading Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange, I scrutinize the exclusion of the ethnic minority in the urban space, Los Angeles, and how this exclusion is connected with American neoliberal governmentality focusing on security and urban plan. I problematize the governmental technology for immigrants and marginals. The neoliberal governmentality utilizes the inclusion/ exclusion strategy according to which an individual is included or excluded in the society whether he/she possesses the ability of self-decision and self-control. I also explore the possibility of new subject from neoliberal subject, or the entrepreneurial subject of choice in their quest for self-realization through examining protagonists in Tropic of Orange. How to live ethically as a third world subject can be answered when we consider the technology of self—care, or parrhesia which is a key practice of personal ethics as suggested by Michel Foucault. To make oneself a truly independent subject is a task that should be sought through the subjectivation process, which requires the courage to be able to speak the truth in any situation one encounters.