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" ... Dan: When I was a college professor, I designed a course that was called “The Needs of Newcomers.” In this class, students worked at home or school with a newly arrived young person from another part of the world. In class, we read novels and literature about the child's experience of acculturation. Over the four iterations of the course, it would typically be evenly split between children of immigrants or immigrants themselves and students whose families had been here for a while. I constructed the class in part to help the students learn insights from the literature to help them understand the children they were working with. ... "
" ... In her book Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians, Jane Hyun notes, “Who are Asian Americans? Far from being homogenous, we are of varied Asian ancestry. We represent multiple nationalities and languages as well as many social and political viewpoints. At last count, there were over 80 distinct Asian languages spoken in the United States. Even within each specific Asian group, there is considerable variability in education, class and acculturation level.” She adds, “What further complicates matters is that non-Asian Americans often think of Asians as a homogenous group of people.” ... "
" ... N. Lipschutz: I grew up on Bainbridge Island, WA where my high school was about 80 percent white. The acculturation process was real for me as a teenager, but I never realized it until I came to UCLA. Now being here—wow, I see people like me and different from me all the time and every day! My college best friend, Beth, is Indian, and I had the amazing opportunity to eat authentic Indian food with her our freshman year. My other bestie, Marcos, is half Black and half Mexican and he has paved the way for me to be authentic and comfortable in my own skin. Great friends like these helped me embrace my Asian-American self. I came from hating that I was tanner than my classmates in grade school to putting up the flag of the Philippines in my dorm room. ... "