Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There he encountered what he remembers as "a quiet current of anti- Semitism" for the first time, another goad for him to excel. At New Trier high school, he began writing for the school newspaper and quickly determined that he had found his life's work -- one that promised glory at least equal to his father's, and on his own terms. "I told my parents," he says, "that I had abandoned their lifelong ambition for me to be a doctor. I was going to be a writer...
...manipulating other minorities. It tends to isolate Asians and brings resentment." Unfortunately, the typical response from Asian Americans to being held up as an example is to denigrate their own very real strengths -- industriousness, perseverance, sacrifice -- making it almost shameful for them to try to excel. Says Ueda: "It gets to the point where a lot of Asian-American leaders don't like to focus on success...
...January 21, Parade, a tabloid insert in the Sunday editions of newspapers nationwide, ran a cover story titled "Why They Excel--What we can learn from our Asian-American students who are winning coveted places and high honors...