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Courses that explore these questions are increasingly popular among students in general, but the primary audience for minority-oriented curriculums is usually the minorities themselves. Typically, they seek courses that reassure as much as instruct them. At San Francisco State College and also in that city's two-year City...
Such changes in course are often wrenching for Asian-American youths because of strong parental pressure to achieve in areas with a high career payoff. , "They are raised to suffer through their problems alone much more than in other cultures," explains Karen Huang, a clinical psychologist at Stanford who has...
"I love foreign cultures. I love foreign languages," says Range, who speaks French and German. "I don't like to travel as a tourist. I like to travel as a journalist because it's your job then to become expert about wherever you are."
Winter month travelers rarely fill have been more sparse than at any other time in recent history. But now that international tensions and hostilities in the Persian Gulf have died down, tourism officials say that Massachusetts residents will soon resume their searches for exotic cultures and warmer suns, resume their...
Any visitor to the state will feel the tension between the urban and the rural. Discovering these two cultures can be the best part of a trip. Only in Arkansas can people visit a real blacksmith in Smackover who plays the banjo and then go to the DMZ bar just...