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...this statistic is more misleading than helpful. Since Asian-Americans tend to live in large urban areas, their incomes and costs of living will naturally be higher. When income levels are compared by region, those of Asian-Americans are actually below those of white families. This statistic also shows income per family, obscuring the fact that more Asian-American family members have to work to eke out the same income as other families. Finally, these statistics fail to show the higher amount of education needed to reach the same personal income level as whites...
Especially at Harvard, where students are saturated with the ethic of success, it is easy to forget the growing diversity of the Asian-American community. This community--like America as whole--is increasingly becoming one of recent immigrants, be they refugees from Vietnam or poor store owners from Korea. These Asian-American groups whom we keep at arms length bear the brunt of prejudice that all Asian-Americans face in some...
This explains the difficulty Asian-American actors have had in trying to break through stereotypical roles like "Long Duck Dong" in Sixteen Candles. And when Asian-Americans aren't portrayed as geeky and insipid, they're cast as mysterious experts at Kung...
This doesn't mean Asian-Americans should run on platforms openly proclaiming themselves beacons for the Asian-American community. Since Asian-Americans often constitute less than two percent of a given district--including the ones represented by Matsui and Norman Mineta (D-Calif.)--that would be politically fatal...
Nonetheless, once elected, Asian-Americans should be responsible not only to the constituency that elected them, but to the broader Asian-American community, even if it lies outside their districts' lines. Mink says that sensitivity to the interests of this broader constituency comes "naturally." Asian-Americans coming to Congress, she says, are automatically more understanding...