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Posted by tom | Jan 16, 2007Just came across Random things that I do not want to forget about growing up in black-and-white-public-school-America. A must read personal reflection by a Taiwanese-American, with helpful comments, to enlarge the conversation. The January 15, 2007 post begins:
In the middle of reading out loud in class some material for Martin Luther King Day, the teacher devoted an extra 30 seconds to point me out to the class and mentioned that the Chinese built the railroads. This was news to me in elementary school, and I didn't understand why it was relevant. I was just relieved to go back to the class reading . . .
