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...recent years to work in information technology . Thus, we see a wide range across the spectrum of socioeconomic attainment and acculturation, the scope of which often becomes troublingly lost in categorizations of Asian America. In particular, success myths of what Asian America represents—a high-achieving, model minority with overabundant work ethic—are largely inaccurate when applied across the board...
...most visible suggestions of “model minority” status arises in the domain of educational attainment. It is true that some Asian Americans have attained high levels of scholarly achievement—for instance, 64 percent of Asian Indians hold at least a bachelor’s degree, and over 50 percent of Chinese and Pakistani do. The counter story, however, is one we must also keep in mind; among Cambodians, Hmong and Laotians, only 8 or 9 percent graduate college—in fact, only about half graduate high school .Thus the label of Asian-American...
...Brattle crowd then followed Braff back to the steps of the Lampoon, where Poonsters presented him with a baseball cap, a bowling trophy labeled “Al’s Birthday, 1994,” a mock degree in medicine, and an oversized model of an ice cream cone. Braff was then given the honorary title of “Ice Cream...
...your sports role model as you were growing...
...study, published yesterday in the journal Cell, said the mouse model of the disease will be a fertile testing ground for new colitis treatments in humans...