Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story supposedly proving that Asian Americans are "breaking the mold" turns out to be an all too familiar picture of resigned people going about their distinctly 'Asian' ways, unthinking and helplessly rationalizing their pre-med choices. No wonder I never joined the Asian American Association. They have too much of a chip on their collective shoulder...
Michael M. Luo's article ("Asian-Americans: Breaking the Mold," Scrutiny, Feb. 1, 1995) parades in front of the reader a handful of Asian Americans who are ostensibly "breaking the mold," almost as a novel zoological phenomenon. In particular, he contrasts the prevalent pre-med image of Asian Americans with the exciting new venues that they find themselves in: high-rank campus publishing, student businesses and--of all impressive things--the Undergraduate Council...
...Asian Development Bank, one of the sponsors of the project, selected these six countries because they best represent the geographic and population diversity of all developing countries in Asia, says C.C. Yu, a postdoctoral fellow in the department...
...push for rapid industrialization in many of these developing Asian countries has come at the expense of environmental and health concerns, says project collaborator Joseph J. Harrington, McKay professor of environmental engineering. During a recent tour of China and the Philippines, Harrington says he was able to observe first hand the "incredible air and water pollution problems of these countries...
...Asian Development Bank, one of the two mainsponsors of the project, will use the newenvironmental index in its annual allocation ofsome four billion dollars in loans, half of whichmust go toward investments which addressenvironmental, population and poverty concerns,says Nagaraja R. Harshadeep, a graduate student inenvironmental engineering...