The myth of the model minority: Southeast Asians were stereotyped as bolstered by strong values. But when immigrants face grim economic and social conditions, values are not enough. (Cover Story).
American Prospect, The, April, 2002 by Thrupkaew, Noy
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MALI KEO FLED CAMBODIA WITH HER HUSBAND and four children in 1992. Several years later, she was still haunted by searing memories of the killing fields," the forced-labor camps where millions of Cambodians died, victims of Communist despot Pol Pot's quest for a perfect agrarian society.
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Because of the brutal beatings she suffered at the hands of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, she was still wracked with physical pain as well. Traumatized and ailing, uneducated, unskilled, and speaking very little English, Mali Keo (a pseudonym assigned by researchers) could barely support her children ...
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