Asian Americans
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| Originally published | 1991 |
| Authors | James Flynn |
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| ID | 2302651 |
About Asian Americans
This authoritative book shows how the gap between a group's mean IQ and achievement can be precisely measured, and then partitioned between two factors -- an important methodology with potential application for all ethnic groups. . . .
How Mike Jeffries used shirtless models to sell Abercrombie
... One year later, the company faced a class action lawsuit brought by several thousand former employees and job applicants, who alleged the company had discriminated against African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans in its hiring and advertising...
Affirmative action: Why this teen says he was rejected by top US colleges
... " The worry that myself and many other Asian Americans have is that when admission officer sees Patel, when he sees a Lee, when he sees a Kim, when he sees any Asian last name, basically the image that comes up is kid just sitting in his school on classes studying away math, and not doing anything that has an impact on society, " he said...
Vivek Ramaswamy: The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president
... Democrat Shekar Narasimhan, founder and chairman of the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) Victory Fund, says that while he is happy to see more Asian-Americans gain prominence in politics, he isn t confident about Mr Ramaswamy s ideas...
Why the West is reckoning with caste bias now
... South Asian Americans are now thinking through how anti-Blackness in their own communities might be informed by casteism, she said...
US Olympian Sunisa Lee 'pepper sprayed in racist attack'
... It comes amid a dramatic rise in attacks on Asian Americans...
George Floyd's death eases tensions between the two communities
... While 50% of the larger category of Asian Americans have graduated from the University, but only 17% of Hmong-Americans have a college degree...
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US economy under Trump: Is it the greatest in history?
... For Asian Americans, records only go back to 2003...
US Olympian Sunisa Lee 'pepper sprayed in racist attack'
US Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee has said she was pepper-sprayed in a racist drive-by attack in Los Angeles .
In an interview with, the gold winner and first US-Hmong Olympian said she and a group of Asian friends were targeted while waiting for a ride.
The Incident took place a few weeks ago as she was in LA to film Dancing with The Stars , she told the magazine.
Attacks on people of Asian descent have risen amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which was first reported in China.
Lee , 18, made history by travelling to Tokyo this summer, becoming The First US Olympic athlete from the Hmong Ethnic Group .
The Gymnast said she and her friends, all of Asian descent, were waiting for their Uber after a Night Out when a car passed with people inside shouting ethnic slurs and telling them to " go Back To where they came from".
One person sprayed her in The Arm with pepper spray before The Vehicle sped away, She Said .
" I was so mad, but there was nothing I could do or control because they skirted off, " Lee said.
" I didn't do anything to them, and having The Reputation , it's so hard because I didn't want to do anything that could get me into trouble.
" I just let it happen. "
Lee - whose parents immigrated to the US from Laos - comes from St Paul, Minnesota.
She vaulted onto the World Stage Last Summer after the withdrawal of her teammate Simone Biles .
It Comes amid a dramatic rise in attacks on Asian Americans .
In April, US karate Olympian Sakura Kokumai, who is Japanese-American, was accosted while training in a park in California.
The Man , who allegedly shouted racist slurs at her, was arrested for making threats.
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