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...importance of ethnic clubs lies not so much in the events they hold as what they stand for, says Peter N. Kiang '80, lecturer of Asian-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts and former member of the Asian-American Association...
...Ethnic clubs are essential for ethnic students and valuable for the population and community as a whole, especially at institutions like Harvard where you are a minority and don't have a long history," says Kiang...
...Ethnic clubs are not self-segregating," says Kiang. "That is often the mistaken and misguided argument about ethnic clubs. People are coming from the wrong assumption that mainstream culture is the only culture...
Based on full consideration, Kiang said, "You would have to conclude that Asian-Americans do not have full equality in American society...
Many Asian-Americans are channeled early on into a narrow range of academic study, Kiang said. He said that 18 percent of the Ph.D.'s earned by Asian-Americans are in the field of engineering, 20 percent are in the physical sciences and 25 percent are in the life sciences...