Long Vang

ASA 2

9/30/15

Blog Week 1

People don’t really care much for numbers when you put them out.  There is a certain uncertainty to them, but once in a while the numbers can surprise to and make you want to find out more about them.  After reading the census I realized how weird some of the data are.  What surprise me the most was the graduation rate in BA, MA and PHD.  Asians are smart and passing high school is easy enough, but somewhere along the line the percentage decreases and college graduation rate takes a drive.  This got me thinking, “Is it the school or the students?, or Maybe Asian Americans lack something that college requires to graduate?”  I know it sounds very crazy to say that something is wrong with the system and not the student itself, but when you see the statistics showing a lot of people able to graduate high school and not college, there is something affecting this.  This got me thinking, how are we the model minority if we are not able to move up and stay cluster somewhere in the lower half of society?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opBfHXePM2Y