Word: cambodian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Within the term 'Asian-American' there are many nationalities. There are very underrepresented groups like Vietnamese and Cambodian that get lost in the shuffle when people say that Asians aren't a minority," she says...
Mina K. Park '98, a program coordinator, says the program targets Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese students who are less likely to apply...
Miles, who lost both legs in a mortar explosion in Vietnam in 1969, directs a program that builds prostheses and wheelchairs for amputees in Cambodia, many of them victims of land mines. "Amputees are thought to be quite valueless by Cambodian society," he says. "Giving them a limb is a great thing. Even greater is giving them an opportunity to learn a trade and support their families...
...deeply ambivalent on the issue of affirmative action, but one thing is clear: they do not wish to be used as rhetorical pawns by its (white) opponents. In perpetuating the myth of Asian Americans as a "model minority," Mansfield ignores the socioeconomic diversity of Asian America. Hmong, Laotian and Cambodian American communities, for example, have higher rates of poverty on average than African American and Latino communities, and Filipino Americans--the second largest Asian American group--are underrepresented at nearly all the nation's top schools. Mansfield ignores, or is ignorant of, the continuing obstacles facing Asian American progress...
...only to be struck down in the violence of an American city. In between he won an Oscar for his portrayal of fellow survivor and photojournalist Dith Pran in the 1984 movie The Killing Fields. Police are looking into whether Ngor, an outspoken benefactor of L.A.'s Cambodian-refugee community, was a victim of robbery or politics...