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...story supposedly proving that Asian Americans are "breaking the mold" turns out to be an all too familiar picture of resigned people going about their distinctly 'Asian' ways, unthinking and helplessly rationalizing their pre-med choices. No wonder I never joined the Asian American Association. They have too much of a chip on their collective shoulder...
Michael M. Luo's article ("Asian-Americans: Breaking the Mold," Scrutiny, Feb. 1, 1995) parades in front of the reader a handful of Asian Americans who are ostensibly "breaking the mold," almost as a novel zoological phenomenon. In particular, he contrasts the prevalent pre-med image of Asian Americans with the exciting new venues that they find themselves in: high-rank campus publishing, student businesses and--of all impressive things--the Undergraduate Council...
...cultural difference grounded in a Confucian ideal of self-sacrifice, learning and a subordination of the self to a collective, but the statements coming out of these supposedly free-thinking, liberated-from-their-molds individuals smack of brainlessness. Claims that peer pressure and parental pressure to go pre-med have influenced some students' decisions make them seem easily manipulable and thought-controlled. Horror stories about piano lessons and SAT prep courses come right out of an Amy Tan novel about her mother...
Last year the pre-med O'Brien was named anAcademic All-American by the Field Hockey CoachesAssociation...
...fall of my sophomore year, I was takingseveral pre-med requirements and playing fieldhockey," O'Brien says. "That was really demanding,really tough...