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Asian students’ reverence for theirteachers. Another vowed to make classparticipation part of the grade in orderto prod Asian students to speak in class.“You’re supposed to downgrade yourselfin Chinese learning because otherthinkers are so much greater than you,”said a third. “This is a perennial problemin classes with predominantlyAsian-American students.”The article generated a passionate reactionin the Asian-American community.Some said the universities wereright that Asian students need to adaptto Western educational norms. “Asian-Americans have let people walk all overthem because of their silence,” posted areader of the sardonically titled websiteModelMinority.com. Others felt thatAsian students shouldn’t be forced tospeak up and conform to the Westernmode. “Perhaps instead of trying to528/929
change their ways, colleges can learn tolisten to their sound of silence,” wroteHeejung Kim, a Stanford University culturalpsychologist, in a paper arguingthat talking is not always a positive act.529/929How is it that Asians and Westernerscan look at the exact same classroominteractions, and one group will label it“class participation” and the other“talking nonsense”? The Journal of Researchin Personality has published ananswer to this question in the form of amap of the world drawn by researchpsychologist Robert McCrae. McCrae’smap looks like something you’d see in ageography textbook, but it’s based, hesays, “not on rainfall or populationdensity, but on personality trait levels,”
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change their ways, colleges can learn to
listen to their sound of silence,” wrote
Heejung Kim, a Stanford University cultural
psychologist, in a paper arguing
that talking is not always a positive act.
529/929
How is it that Asians and Westerners
can look at the exact same classroom
interactions, and one group will label it
“class participation” and the other
“talking nonsense”? The Journal of Research
in Personality has published an
answer to this question in the form of a
map of the world drawn by research
psychologist Robert McCrae. McCrae’s
map looks like something you’d see in a
geography textbook, but it’s based, he
says, “not on rainfall or population
density, but on personality trait levels,”
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