Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James Ho, a member of the Asian Health Association, thought that one of the most important issues raised at the conference was the grouping of extremely diverse groups under the same heading of Asians in public policy...
Such generalizations, said Ho, skew research funding so that although "Chinese women get cervical cancer more than Caucasians," they are ignored because all Asian women do not share this problem...
Panelist Dong Suh, a member of the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum gave an example of the diversity of Asians in America. "Asians have the highest percentage of college degrees of any minority and the highest percentage of people with [only] five years of education," he said...
Members of the audience feared, however, that their successes might blind them to the existence of discrimination against other Asian-Americans...
...years ago there were no Asian counselors--even though there were some notable suicides," he said. "The students had nowhere to go to find someone who understood the culture they came from...