Nanni (
tiamatschild) wrote2013-02-06 11:55 am
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...What.
Culture is also important. Those of us who teach and are reasonably accessible have office visits from Asian American students, particularly those in the sciences, to protest perfectly respectable grades. As one young Chinese American student - American-born of immigrant parents - explained to me after I told her why I would not change her B+ to at least an A-, "If I come home with a 'B' my mother will kill me."
Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882, Roger Daniels
... ... ...That's. Well. Yeah, no.