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...pick up and chase after their dreams. They are born optimists; otherwise, why come? Though some are poorer and have fewer job skills to offer than previous immigrants, an impressive number bring with them palpable contributions to American society. A great many new doctors today are foreign born. Immigrants rank high among the entrepreneurs who are making small businesses the core of recent economic growth. As the pictures on these pages demonstrate, the newcomers have also provided America with some startling images by replicating scenes from their own cultures across the country...
...Stop signs are fairly common in the job market, though. In large corporations, very few Asians have reached senior-executive rank. The reason, in part at least, seems to be a kind of cultural Great Wall that blinds management to what Asians expect in the workplace. Says J.D. Hokoyama, president of the national nonprofit organization known as LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian-Pacifics): "In America a worker comes into my office and asks for a promotion. Asians don't do that...
...banking were also closed to those of Mediterranean or Slavic descent. A handful of legal and financial establishments were the preserves of high-caste German Jews, seldom hospitable to Polish and Russian Jews. The Postal Service was more ) egalitarian. The merit system allowed a Baratz to rise in rank, slowly. But my father felt that he lived in confinement -- a condition from which he would abet his only son's escape by providing cover...
...economic revolution are astounding. In Mao's time, leveling was the rule, and everyone aimed at a drab, fanatical egalitarianism. The nation dressed in rumpled blue tunics that made it difficult to tell men from women, and waxed so proletarian that even army officers removed their badges of rank. Today the society is brazenly materialistic, roaring through cycles of boom and bust that have made millions rich. The free-for-all has also left hundreds of millions in the dust but still eager to get theirs. "People are thinking only about money," says a Chinese professor of philosophy in Beijing...
Eight games showcased the top four players from each team, matched up against each other in rank order. The pairs played two games apiece, so that players would get a turn at each color...