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SOFT POWER

Asian-Americans and the Extrovert Ideal

In a gentle way, you can shake the

world.

—MAHATMA GANDHI

It’s a sunny spring day in 2006, and

Mike Wei, a seventeen-year-old

Chinese-born senior at Lynbrook High

School near Cupertino, California, is

telling me about his experiences as an

Asian-American student. Mike is

dressed in sporty all-American attire of

khakis, windbreaker, and baseball cap,

but his sweet, serious face and wispy

mustache give him the aura of a

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