What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
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What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Saved by Alara and
To study hard, according to Collins, to excel on standardized tests, to earn high grades, to exceed expectations, is white supremacist behavior. Asians are therefore complicit in the systemic oppression of black students.
You don’t like how you look, how you sound. You think your Asian features are undefined, like God started pinching out your features and then abandoned you. You hate that there are so many Asians in the room. Who let in all the Asians? you rant in your head. Instead of solidarity, you feel that you are less than around other Asians, the boundaries
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