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We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

~Eric Liu

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Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

~Eric Liu

Topics: American Asian Family Far Fit Great Instead Living Mainstream Minority Model Numbers Poverty Stereotypes Tiger

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Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

~Eric Liu

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In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

~Eric Liu

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To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

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Topics: Educational Infrastructure Least Our Physical Problems Profound States Sure United United States

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Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

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Topics: America China Debate Gain Game Locked Loss Much National Other Our Precisely Proceeds Were Which

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Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

~Eric Liu

Topics: Agony Apple Because China Company Cost Couple Depicted Does Dollars Ecstasy Hundred Iphone Jobs Made Mike One-Man Only Performer Products Show Stage Steve Steve Jobs Why

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After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

~Eric Liu

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Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

~Eric Liu

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The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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