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Asian American culture is probably destined to be a sort of transitory, ephemeral thing. The classic second generation experience — 'My parents really drove me hard and kids made fun of my weird lunch, until I went to college and met other people with the same background' — almost never lasts beyond the second generation. Assimilation happens.

Noah Smith
3w ago

The discoverer of a new scientific truth does not gradually win over his opponents by converting them... What does happen is that his opponents gradually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with the idea from the beginning.

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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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