The Loneliest Americans
But another piece of our demographic condition in that moment, uncounted and unaccounted for, was loneliness. Among immigrant groups, Indo-Americans were the most geographically dispersed. Rarely did the researchers find Indians concentrated in specific, urban neighborhoods, and these too were relatively small. For the most part, while Cubans congr
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What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Wesley Yangnymag.com
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Who is us? What is us? Is there even such a concept as an Asian American consciousness? Is it anything like the double consciousness that W.E.B. Du Bois established over a century ago?
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
In the late 1990s, the national media were abuzz with stories of South Asian immigrants to California: the H-1B visa holders, the brilliant computer scientists and engineers from the subcontinent who were flocking to Silicon Valley to be part of the Internet revolution. Their story merged with, and seemed a natural sequel to, the saga of the brain-
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There’s a telos of self-improvement baked into the immigrant experience.
Hua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Again, I want to be very clear that these neighborhoods are not some hell on earth, and anyone from the rest of world would be smitten to have the chance to live in them. As I wrote above, if an average African, Asian, or Latin American asked my advice I would tell them to move there. It would be downright weird of me to tell them otherwise, given ... See more
Chris Arnade • A brief foray into Dallas, missing Kampala, and some thoughts on over-tourism
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