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Asian American Success
Why do Asian American children do so well at college? Is it something in their cultural background or does discrimination at work mean they try harder?
Why do Asian-American children do so well at college? Is it something in their cultural background? Or does discrimination at work mean they try harder? Steve Evans meets Ling-Chi Wang, a Chinese born American who's fought for his rights for forty years. Steve also hears from student Raman Nelakanti and Professor Hazel Rose Markus, a psychologist at Stanford University. She studies East Asian cultures and believes that those parents think the stronger the control, the stronger the love.
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