Word: americans
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Glazer's comments suggest that it is enough that some Asian-Americans enjoy highly visible success in the U.S. It is easy to draw from the growing numbers of Asian-American students, family businesses and professionals, as Glazer does, that "The fact is that the public concern in this country with minority problems is not with minorities that don't make problems...
...attempt to assess the needs and cultural composition of its burgeoning membership, the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA) began distributing the first-ever survey to members this weekend...
...surveys, included in packets for all Asian-American Cultural Week events, ask members to comment on Asian-Americans' perceptions of their place at Harvard and on the difference in needs between those who recently immigrated to the U.S. and those whose families have lived here for several generations...
Speaking at a forum entitled "Are We Minorities?", sponsored by the Harvard/Radcliffe Asian-American Association (AAA), Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer said that programs set up in the 1960s as an aid to Blacks should not apply to other minority groups...
Glazer, author of the 1975 work Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, said that because Asian-Americans have already gained significant representation in many prestigious professions, it is unnecessary to include them in programs designed to target minorities. In support of his position, Glazer said that while Blacks constitute about 12 percent of the U.S. population, they make up only 1.8 percent of American medical school faculties; Asian-Americans, at about 2 percent the population, make up 7.5 percent...