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Some campus Christian groups, including HRCF, CI and Harvard-Radcliffe Asian-American Christian Fellowship (AACF), have historically been connected with the evangelical wing of American Protestantism, according to Gomes...
...Le.Just as media portrayals in the U.S. may distort Asian-American masculinity, images of African-Americans abroad may make it less socially acceptable for Asian Americans to date African Americans.In China, Jimmy Zhao says, “the only black people you’re going to see on TV are in rap videos or other negative images.” The result, he says, is that the immigrant parents of some Chinese Americans “make assumptions about [African Americans] as a people in general.”Other Asian-American students agreed that older generations might...
...also broke down the data according to gender, race, and academic discipline. Sixty-six percent of African-American faculty describe themselves as spiritual “to a great extent,” the report said, compared to 48 percent of Caucasian faculty and only 37 percent of Asian and Asian-American faculty. Professors in the physical and biological sciences were less likely to believe that universities should concern themselves with students’ spiritual growth than professors in the humanities. Slightly more women than men “integrate spirituality in [their] lives,” the survey found...
...seeming to fit into neither?many felt as if "they had no community," says Chang-rae Lee, a Korean-American novelist who has written about this generation's journey. "They had to create themselves." In doing so, they have updated the old immigrant story and forged a new Asian-American identity, not wholly recognizable in any of their parents' native lands but, in its hybrid nature, vibrantly American...
...were to draw a diagram of acculturation, with the mores of immigrant parents on one side and society's on the other, the classic model might show a steady drift over time, depicting a slow-burn Americanization, taking as long as two or three generations. The more recent Asian-American curve, however, looks almost like the path of a boomerang: early isolation, rapid immersion and assimilation and then a re-appreciation of ethnic roots...