Word: atlanta
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...site for Southeast Asian families. This year, aided by federal and state grants, Lowell spent $5.9 million on bilingual education; courses are offered in Spanish, Khmer, Lao, Portugese and Vietnamese. All communications between schools and parents are translated into five languages. At the Cary Reynolds elementary school in the Atlanta suburb of De Kalb County, Georgia, students from 25 foreign nations speak a medley of languages ranging from Mandarin to Farsi...
...certain image of exoticness lingers. Douglas Kwon, 28, a recent law- school graduate in Atlanta, has views on politics and marriage that differ markedly from those of his Korean parents. But he has also grown cynical about the prospects of truly fitting in. From the taunts he drew as a schoolboy to the persistent query he gets as an adult ("Where are you from -- no, really?"), he concludes, "The bottom line is everyone is racist; everyone carries certain stereotypes around with them, and nothing is ever going to change that." Peter Son, 25, also a member of Atlanta's fast...
While that ethic does not necessarily resolve identity conflicts, times are changing. Says Stephen Chen, a 20-year-old liberal arts major at Atlanta's Emory College: "When first-generation Asians talk about Caucasians, they tend to say 'Americans.' That leaves the impression that we're foreigners and always will be, and we have to accept that -- which I don't agree with." Elaine Kim, professor of Asian-American studies at Berkeley, comments, "It used to be that you had to be assimilating or foreign. Now we have young Asian-American writers who are refusing that choice. What they...
Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Sally B. Donnelly, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson...
Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Ted Gup, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Sally B. Donnelly, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson...