Word: asian-american
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...ignores standards of merit other than SAT scores and grades, in addition to misinterpreting the motive behind Harvard's recruitment policy. Choi thus gratuitously accepts the narrow standards of merit of the dominant culture, such as SAT scores and high grades. In doing so, Choi allows himself, as an Asian-American, to be used as a "model minority." He has bought into the stereotype that Asians, unlike Blacks or Hispanics, are docile, hard-working, law-abiding and respectful of educational and family institutions. He has succumbed to this colonization of the mind to the extent that he actually criticizes...
...article, Choi sets up an opposition between whites and Asians on one side, and Blacks and Hispanics on the other. This creates tension based on misconceptions, stereotypes and outright fallacies. The fact that he is an Asian-American, propagating these images, lends them all the more "validity" in the eyes of the general public...
...Asian-American Association (AAA) recently formed a new political committee to coordinate efforts to bring Asian-American professors and courses to Harvard. Eunice Yoon '93, the committee's co-chair, says she would like to see an American studies program at Harvard and will push for more permanent Asian-American issues courses and professors...
Harvard trails a number of other institutions in the area of ethnic studies. Yale has interdisciplinary majors in Chicano studies and Asian-American studies...
Berkeley offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in ethnic, Asian-American, Chicano and Native American studies. African-American studies is a separate department. The ethnic studies major is a combination of at least three ethnic focuses...