Writes one reader: 'We can buy guns and kill people. We can win Olympic gold medals. We can put a basketball through a hoop.'
Add to this cornucopia of people my grandson, who is on one side sixth-generation Japanese American and on the other ethnically Chinese. There you have it.We can buy guns and kill people. We can win Olympic gold medals. We can put a basketball through a hoop.
We have “model minority” and forever foreigner stereotypes, as well as the unrelenting “tiger mom.” There’s another dimension, captured by Stanford University psychologist Helen Hsu’s quote in Erika D. Smith’s column: “There are people in our community who are really, really, really not doing well and we don’t talk about them.”Warren Furutani, Gardena
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