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Russians may beg, borrow or steal foreign artifacts and ideas, but the vast majority of them would never want to live abroad. Those who do emigrate often suffer from chronic homesickness. Though keenly embarrassed by their economic and social backwardness, they believe passionately in the inherent superiority of their own...
Many people tend to view the huge variety of Asian cultures as "monolithic," they say, and miss the diversity of experience and history the term "Asian-American" encompasses.
"People who don't know much about it tend to assume they [Asian cultures] are very similar," says Dat T. Lu '95, president of the Harvard Vietnamese Association.
Different groups have "different cultures, different languages, different emigration patterns, different economic patterns," says Selene S. Ko '93, president of the Taiwanese Cultural Society, and no generalization can cover all of the groups.
Closely tied to the question of being aminority in American society is the crisis somestudents say Asian-Americans face as members oftwo cultures.