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...give them a clicker pen and tell them to just click over from the negative to the positive channel." If the anxiety doesn't go away, says Smith, then it's time to switch to the escape channel. That's for thoughts about how the athlete's role model would react. How would Joe DiMaggio get over the disappointment? What would the Babe...
...post-1965 generation really is different," says David Reimers, a historian of immigration at N.Y.U. "The process of assimilation has been much faster." The inspiration for the notion of the "model minority," the generation's members have been most recognized for their high academic achievements, a reflection of their parents' drive for a certain kind of success. But that is only part of their story. Shuttling between two worlds?and seeming to fit into neither?many felt as if "they had no community," says Chang-rae Lee, a Korean-American novelist who has written about this generation's journey. "They...
...were to draw a diagram of acculturation, with the mores of immigrant parents on one side and society's on the other, the classic model might show a steady drift over time, depicting a slow-burn Americanization, taking as long as two or three generations. The more recent Asian-American curve, however, looks almost like the path of a boomerang: early isolation, rapid immersion and assimilation and then a re-appreciation of ethnic roots...
...declined lately, and logistics costs should decrease as China's transport infrastructure improves. Last year Honda became the first foreign automaker to set up a major export operation, shipping a compact to Europe from a plant in Guangdong's special, duty-free zone. Chrysler plans to build its 300-model sedan in Beijing for domestic sale and possible export (although not to North America, where autoworkers would probably object). GM and Volkswagen export small quantities too, such as Chevy Venture minivans to the Philippines and Polo compact cars to Australia. A Chinese supplier, Wanxiang Group, is reportedly even negotiating...
...like Geely and Chery, it's a formidable task to pierce the cutthroat U.S. market, in which only a handful of sophisticated players (Honda, Toyota, BMW) consistently post profits. Geely was founded as a maker of refrigerators in 1986 and shifted to cars in 1998; Chery launched its first model in 2000. And although Chinese vehicle quality is improving, it lags Western standards by wide margins. Chery's QQ model, for instance, had an average 391 problems per 100 vehicles, according to J.D. Power's latest initial-quality survey. For U.S. models, the average is 118. Chinese manufacturers must also...