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tickets to popularity and financial success.
They come to live with a doubleconsciousness—part
Asian and part
American—with each side calling the
other into question. Mike Wei, the high
school senior who told me he’d rather
study than socialize, is a perfect example
of this ambivalence. When we
first met, he was a high school senior,
still nestled in the Cupertino cocoon.
“Because we put so much emphasis on
education,” Mike told me then, referring
to Asians in general, “socializing is
not a big part of our selves.”
When I caught up with Mike the following
autumn, in his freshman year at
Stanford, only a twenty-minute drive
from Cupertino but a world away
demographically, he seemed unsettled.
We met at an outdoor café, where we
sat next to a coed group of athletes
erupting regularly in laughter. Mike
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