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Cashing in on model minority myth.(READING BETWEEN THE HEADLINES)(Brief article)
Two Asian American sisters have written a field manual to "Asian parenting." In Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--and How You Can Too, Soo Kim Abboud and Jane Kim shamelessly promote the virtues of a stereotypical Asian home where parents limit TV time and kids study incessantly. The ...
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