Old habits die hard – I began preparing a few days before my lecture on the American Dream at the United States Consulate in China. Staying up past midnight for many days, I revised, re-researched, added, removed and finally submitted the Powerpoint slides for the big day. The last time I had given a speech …
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While eating dinner, my mom asked my brother if his classmates ever hazed him because he was Chinese. “Mom, is this appropriate for the dinner table?” I said. She explained that it was inspired by a fictional piece she read: an immigrant boy bullied by a classmate because he was Chinese. Mom said she could …
In 2001, the first Asian-interest Greek organization, Pi Delta Psi (PDP) appeared at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). In the following years, other Asian-interest ones appeared. Compared to the Greek organizations that have existed at CMU for over a hundred years, these Asian-interest ones are like babies. So maybe it was expected that these young, Asian-interest Greek …
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