Word: ahmad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chairs have undertaken the issue as they should," said Muneer I. Ahmad '93, co-head of the South Asian Students' Association. "We are being supportive of the chairs...
...organization, we are looking to promote South Asian culture. If the administration were not to continue the program--a 25 year-old program--we would consider it not only a setback but an insult," Ahmad said...
...Ahmad also overcame an initial negative experience before becoming active in a group. Ahmad says he went to his first Asian American Association (AAA) meeting and was given a form with different regional groups to check off, such as Chinese or Korean. The form had "no spot for South Asian," says Ahmad, who quickly left the meeting...
...Then, Ahmad says, he went to AAA meetings and people asked him what he was doing there. Today, the South Asian student sits on the AAA steering committee...
...Ahmad's experience points to the vast diversity that exists within the boundaries of ethnic groups that are sometimes mistakenly perceived as monolithic. Every group, it seems, has factions and subdivisions. And increasingly, inter-racial marriages yield offspring with complex identities. In short, even minorities have minorities...