I figured we’d go through some trash bins and I’d go back home, my reusable bag filled with some hummus packets and a couple of apples. Instead, I ended up having to borrow three additional giant tote bags for all the items I found.
Fay Hing Lee Wong recited her proverbs to her children, giving them, and us, a lifetime of loving wisdom. Many are funny, more are wry, and a few are very earthy.
The model minority concept of Asian Americans being racially superior to other non-white ethnic groups is not a compliment, nor a framework to empower Chinese Americans.
Exclusionists barred Chinese laborers but the pro-China lobby won an immigration gateway for intellectuals, businessmen and students -- the studious, hard-working, successful who became the models for the "model minority."