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...light of the region’s growing influence in the international arena. However, Harvard has yet to put forth the effort to strengthen the study of South Asia. Despite encouraging rhetoric from the previous Mass. Hall administration and a consensus among students regarding the need for South Asian studies, little has been done to concretely improve this much-valued area of study. The administration must begin to address this deficiency if it means to provide the sort of global and relevant education toward which it aims.Many of Harvard’s peer institutions have already made substantial investments...
When I told my mom, an ESL teacher at a parochial high school in North Philadelphia, the general outline of the current uproar over Asian Americans and college admissions, she became angry, lifted her voice, and said “This is ridiculous! ‘Over-represented?’ My kids’ parents can’t even speak English! [The kids] work for five or six hours each night in their parents’ stores, and still manage to get all of their homework done by the next day. Without fail. They work harder than anyone...
...mother works with a large number of Asian-American students, almost all of whom are recent arrivals from China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand. She went on to detail the superhuman—to me at least—exertions of her students and their parents. Yes, the “hard working immigrant” is a standby American cliché, but the people I had described to me were dedicated in a way that I can only vaguely imagine...
...experience in America, only the most foolish would suggest that they do not exist. Yet what is profoundly mystifying to me, is why racism, or “differential treatment,” or whatever else one sees fit to call it, is somehow supposed to magically skip over Asian Americans in general and the sort of first-generation Asian Americans taught by my mother in particular...
According to the UCLA Diversity Statistics monograph for 2005-2006, 6.9 percent of UCLA female faculty members are minorities, while 14.9 percent of male faculty members are minorities. The monograph counts African American, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American faculty members as minorities...