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because they still measured themselves
according to their parents’ traditional
value systems—by the time they got to
be seventeen and had been more exposed
to America’s Extrovert Ideal,
their self-regard had taken a nosedive.
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For Asian-American kids, the cost of
failing to fit in is social unease. But as
they grow up, they may pay the price
with their paychecks. The journalist
Nicholas Lemann once interviewed a
group of Asian-Americans on the subject
of meritocracy for his book The Big
Test. “A sentiment that emerges consistently,”
he wrote, “is that meritocracy
ends on graduation day, and that afterward,
Asians start to fall behind because
they don’t have quite the right