Word: hong
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...minority, numbering more than 5 million, or about 2% of the population; in 1960 the figures were 891,000 and 0.5%. Then in 1965 a new immigration law did away with exclusionary quotas. That brought a surge of largely middle- class Asian professionals - doctors, engineers and academics from Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, India and the Philippines - seeking economic opportunity. In 1975, after the end of the Viet Nam War, 130,000 refugees, mostly from the educated middle class, began arriving. Three years later a second wave of 650,000 Indochinese started their journey from rural and poor areas...
...explain the accomplishment of children whose refugee parents were less well educated? One claim is that Asians are simply smarter than other groups. A subscriber to this theory is Arthur Jensen, a controversial Berkeley educational psychologist. Jensen tested Asian children - 500 in San Francisco and 8,000 in Hong Kong - then compared the results with tests of 1,000 white American children in Bakersfield, Calif. He contends that the children with Asian backgrounds averaged ten I.Q. points higher than the whites, and believes there are "genetic differences" in the rate at which Asians and whites mature mentally...
...foot, the ragged families set out from China's harsh state farms and make their way to the coast. After buying passage with their savings, they sail for Hong Kong. For the second time in eight years, they are refugees. Viet Nam expelled them first; now China has rejected them...
Since July, Hong Kong has picked up 6,200 of these people without a country. An additional 50,000 may be coming, propelled by the false impression that they can easily immigrate to the U.S. and Europe. Hong Kong, already processing more than 8,000 other displaced Indochinese, is incensed at having to deal with the newest refugees. But it lacks the muscle to make Peking take them back...
...Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, Laura Lopez, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott