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...Circle of Students: Reach and Teach Across Borders (COSRATAB) 7) Recreational Experience and Arts Creativity with Harvard (REACH) 8) Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) 9) Harvard College Venture Capital and Private Equity Club (HCVCPE) 10) The Alaska Klub of Harvard University (TAKOHU) 11) Organization of Asian American Sisters in Service (OAASIS) 12) Harvard and Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth (HARMONY) 13) Music in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Using Entertainment as Therapy (MIHNHUET) 14) Aspiring Minority Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs (AMBLE) 15) Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of the Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM) Let this...
...Asian Americans constitute roughly 4 percent of the US population and 20 percent of the class of 2011 . One might at first be inclined to frown at a seeming infestation of the gawky and bespectacled yellow masses into our most elite and whitewashed institutions—but before we indulge in the image, let’s try to imagine more precisely the demographic to which the numbers refer...
...true that here on campus being Asian American lumps you in more than sets you apart. The usual guess is that any given Asian American has perfect SATs plus or minus a few questions, the best high school rank plus or minus a few spots, and (of course) closet talent as concert pianist/violinist/flutist. Usually your guess is spot-on. Yet, despite the ease with which we can imagine homogeneity in this crowd of black-haired, brown-eyed boys and girls, the categorization is deceptive in its simplicity...
...need to look no further than a few student groups on campus. It is interesting to observe which groups identify most with the term “Asian American”—although we have separate student groups for individual ethnicities, we find that “Asian American” on campus refers most readily to the Far East. For example, the executive board of the Asian American Association is made up of fourteen Chinese, two Korean, and one Vietnamese. An odd dynamic can be observed in that South Asians here do not readily identify with Asian...
...reveals nothing about ethnicity, self-identification, or dynamics between ethnicities. The question, of course, is whether a painstakingly detailed ethnic breakdown is relevant. After all, Caucasians come from all over Europe, and we usually don’t distinguish Irish from Scot from Belgian. The circumstance that makes Asian American diversity important, however, is that this group is particularly new to the country; Asians only first began arriving in the late nineteenth century, and much of the influx has occurred post...