Asian Americans are America’s fastest-growing racial group, and its most educated. However, we face the LEAST equitable outcomes of any group in Corporate America. Once hired, we're less likely to be promoted than any other group. Asian Americans are 12% of the workforce, but only 1.5% of Fortune 500 corporate officers.
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Having immigrated to the U.S. not long before I was born, my parents always were mystified at the American turkey tradition. Each year, Dad would ask, “Why do Americans eat turkey? It’s so dry!”And then, buy us a Peking duck.To him, the idea of roasting a turkey was totally foreign. Two problems:
Thanks to the Model Minority Myth, most Americans assume that Asian Americans are “doing just fine.”
In fact, we suffer from what I call an Age 30 Problem:
