From unassimilable to exceptional
From unassimilable to exceptional
- August 27, 2013
- An article by Jennifer Lee, sociology professor, is featured in The Society Pages August 27, 2013
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From The Society Pages:
Following a recent public lecture in my hometown of Philadelphia, I was approached
by a female member of the audience who asked where I had gone to high school. A retired
high school teacher, she was curious about my educational background. She told me:
"I was so happy whenever I had Korean students in my classes. They were my best students;
they were so bright and worked so hard! And some of these kids, they have parents
who don’t even speak English." I had heard the same thing many times before from people
who believed I shared their views about “Asian American exceptionalism”—that is, Asians
are intrinsically brighter, more hard-working, and more high-achieving than other
students. After all, I am Asian. [Jennifer Lee is in the sociology department at the
University of California at Irvine and was a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar
for 2011-2012.]
For the full story, please visit http://thesocietypages.org/specials/from-unassimilable-to-exceptional/#s....
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