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...function or survive." He then dealt the coup de grace: "If Equity is unwilling to take steps to ensure that reason and fairness prevail, then I have no choice but to cancel Miss Saigon." Gone, for the moment, were the other Saigon roles that would have employed 29 Asian and Asian-American actors. Frozen, for the nonce, was the record $25 million the show had banked in advance ticket sales. Like the event it put to music, Miss Saigon was becoming a no-win war with a high body count. And each combatant was ready to cut off his nose...
...that changed at Harvard. My two roommates were Asian-American. My best friends for the summer were my two neighbors, one of whom was Black and one of whom was Mexican-American...
...Korean grocers that began after a Haitian woman accused the Koreans of assaulting her in an argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. Two weeks ago, Newsday's Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist Jimmy Breslin was suspended for aiming a tirade of racial and sexual slurs at an Asian-American co-worker who had criticized his work. At Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, a brawl broke out when a white professor from the City College of New York delivered a lecture proclaiming white genetic superiority. Another C.C.N.Y professor, this one African American, joined the chorus with a theory that blacks...
Furthermore, prosperous Asian-American families are not immune to fragmentation, even among the Koreans, who are perhaps the most entrepreneurial of the new immigrants. Long hours at the store and the office have taken their toll. The all-consuming work ethic has robbed some Korean youths of parental supervision and, by extension, a sense of identity. Says Youngbin Kim, program coordinator for the Korean Youth Center in Los Angeles: "We see a lot of problems with identity and self-esteem. These kids look Korean, but they don't want to be Korean. They only sense that they are Asian...
...minority" rather than as a group of separate communities requiring specific kinds of help, Asian Americans are often shut out of affirmative-action programs. Asian Americans say the label is used to taunt blacks and Hispanics, that it implies, "The Asians have made it, so why can't you?" Says Reed Ueda, a Japanese-American professor of history at Tufts University in Massachusetts: "It's a way of manipulating other minorities. It tends to isolate Asians and brings resentment." Unfortunately, the typical response from Asian Americans to being held up as an example is to denigrate their own very real...