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''Ble ndin g'' No More For Years a "Hidden" M inority, Colby's Asian,,American Students Are Taking an Active Role in Introducing Their Cultures to Campus
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te,·e Sanche: '95 gre"· ur in a Chi cago neighbnrhl1l)J �urr nunJeJ hy H isran ics, African American� anJ
other Asian Americans. H i-; rarcnt� immi grated from the Philirpines j ust before he was born, and his ethnically d i,·er-e neigh borhood i "·here he feels most comforr able. " I \m·e the c ity of Chicago," he aid. Rothana Chap '95, a biology major from
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Scarborough, Maine, is thoughtful anJ �e rious. H e spent half h is life in Cambodia before coming to the United States \\'ith his parents in the early 1 980s. He says he hopes to return to Cambodia someday and u e h is education to make his nati,·e countrY a better place. "I kne"· "·hat Colby \\'as goin2 to be l ike," he said. "I \\'asn't looking for cultural diversity here . . . . I came for an education." Lynn Furrow '93 also is a Mainer. Born in Tai \\'an, she is half Chinese and learned Mandarin before English. She moved to Bath ,,·ith her American father at an early age and soon forgot her mother' tongue. "In high school, being Chinese "·a n't any thing. I was in Maine-there \\'eren't any Chine e around ," she said. After attendino Clark University she rransferred to Colby for its East Asian studies program and no\\' speak
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assistant in the East Asian Cultures and Language Department. These Asian-American student easi ly could ha,·e gone through their years on Mayflm,·er H il l w i thout kno\\'ing one an other. In many respects, their backgrounds and family traditions are so di,·erse that they have no more in common with one
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