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Asian American / Asian Students: Aspects of Social Interaction – Program

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The conference will address the needs of Asian American and Asian students. Asian and Asian American students suffer from the Model Minority myth in which they are often perceived as bright, successful students without need for academic, developmental, and administrative support. Furthermore, there are great differences within the Asian American subgroups, as well as varying needs between international students, recent immigrants and native born students.

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Asian American / Asian Students: Aspects of Social Interaction – Topic Abstracts

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The conference will address the needs of Asian American and Asian students. Asian and Asian American students suffer from the Model Minority myth in which they are often perceived as bright, successful students without need for academic, developmental, and administrative support. Furthermore, there are great differences within the Asian American subgroups, as well as varying needs between international students, recent immigrants and native born students.

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From “Opium War” to “War on Drugs”: Asian Americans’ Transcultural Journey

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The lecture will focus on the cultural-psychological aspect of Asian Americans’ experiences. Both the international context for their early emigration and the American cultural environment for their acculturation process will be examined (adaptation = selective process vs. unconditional assimilation). The interrelatedness between the two larger contexts will be analyzed to interpret the behavioral patterns that … Read more

Writing Poetry: The Asian American Experience

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WRITING FROM EXPERIENCE: THE ASIAN-AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW I write from my experience, but I distill and shape events so that they add up to coherent stories. My sources are memories, life situations and occasionally dreams, all having to do with growing up as the child of mixed-race parents in rural America and later moving … Read more