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...recalls "people making fun of me" because she was one of the few Asian Americans in her town. The people around the table grew up in rural Texas, suburban New Jersey, upstate New York, small-town Virginia and the real O.C. But they are the children of parents who immigrated to the U.S. from India, the Philippines, Korea, Bangladesh and Taiwan. What they share, says Korean American Suzette Won Haas, 31, is the sense of "feeling like the hyphen in between" the Asian and the American in Asian-American...
Undergraduate Council (UC) candidates discussed student group funding, cultural diversity in academics and within the UC, and relations between cultural groups and the UC during an Asian/Asian-American forum held yesterday in Emerson Hall.The forum, sponsored by 14 Asian and Asian-American organizations on campus, was organized in order to bring the concerns and issues of those groups to the attention of UC candidates, its organizers said. “We feel it is important to speak up about the issues we have,” said Edward Y. Lee ’08, coordinator of the forum, which attracted about...
Minority women fill the executive suites as never before. An Asian-American woman, Andrea Jung, is CEO of Avon. Nina Tassler, a Latina, is president of CBS Entertainment. And Condoleezza Rice, who is African American, has a job just a few steps removed from President. Although their numbers at the top are still tiny--at 429 large companies surveyed by research and advisory group Catalyst in 2003, 1.6% of corporate officers were minority women--more women of an ethnic or racial minority hold senior-level jobs than ever before...
...captain of the Harvard Asian-American Dance Troupe, who was seated with the SRP’s Programs Coordinator, found the organization’s attempts at fusion between past and present inspiring. “Maybe this is far-fetched,” says Luo, “but we’d really like to dance to some of their music.” However, she adds that she “didn’t get a chance to find out to what extent that would be possible...
...statement for Asian-American business, and half of it went to help the city...