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You Want To Defend Citizenship? Don't Persecute Or Isolate Those Without Papers. Just Live Like A Citizen. That'd Be A First-class Way To Be American.

Imagine Filling A College With The First 1,000 Students To Get Perfect Sats. Whatever The Racial Composition Of That Class Would Be, The Notion Seems Absurd Because We Know That College In America Is Supposed To Be About Creating Citizens And Leaders In A Diverse Nation.

Great Numbers Of Asian Americans Do Not Fit The Model Minority Or 'tiger Family' Stereotypes, Living Instead In Multigenerational Poverty Far From The Mainstream.

There Have Been, In Recent Years, Many Asian American Pioneers In The Public Eye Who've Defied The Condescendingly Complimentary 'model Minority' Stereotype: Actors Like Lucy Liu, Artists Like Maya Lin, Moguls Like Zappos Ceo Tony Hsieh. They Are Known, Often Admired.

The Strongest Streak In The American Character Is A Fierce Pragmatism That Mistrust Blind Ideology Of Every Stripe And Insists On Finding What Really Works.