There are only two experiences in my recent memory talking to high school girls, both of which were the children of my classmates and friends of more than 30 years, who traveled from Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area to Washington for events. At this time, the appearance of the child was basically created by the parents' hard work. In this sense, the achievements of the old classmates were as clear as crystal.
The two children think clearly and express fluently. One loves literature. When talking about "The Catcher in the Rye", the love from the bottom of his heart naturally radiates. I can only try my best to hide my shame. My favorite novels in high school were "The Cotai Strip" and "A Pair of Embroidered Shoes". With another who happened to be driving past the Brookings Institution, she was immediately able to talk about how Saudi Arabian donations are influencing research in American think tanks and, by extension, U.S. policy in the Middle East. Seeing the license plate with the word "1812" in Maryland, she could tell the background of the American war against the British with only a little thought. I believe her account is as accurate as the history books.
Two kids are graduating high school this year, one going to Wharton and the other to Wellesley. There is no doubt that they are booksmart, and they are very smart in reading, but they do not have an image similar to the outstanding Chinese girls in the new movie Booksmart, the Chinese name is translated as "high-achieving students".
The two girls in the film are about to graduate from high school and go to Yale and Columbia, respectively. They find that they spend most of their time on their homework and get top grades, but they don't necessarily know how to enjoy life. They decided to seize the last 24 hours before graduation to compensate, so that in addition to getting an A+ in their homework, they could further enrich their image. The high school in the movie is set in Los Angeles, California, and dozens of young people show up one after another, and I don't even see Asians. There may be an omission, but the vast majority of young people are clearly white, from billionaire families to low-rent apartment dwellers. The question is how many top public high schools in America are so short of Asians?
The two girls in the film are outstanding, they never lack the persuasive power of the classics, they follow the Ken Burns documentary closely, they idolize Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Obama and Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, and they aspire to be the greatest in history. Young justice nominee. Asians must have all these strengths, but they're still absent from these "good books" teen films, whether it's by accident or intention, I can't guess. At the same time, I can't get rid of the entanglement between the two ideas. Is it better for Asians to appear, or to be invisible? The two white girls in the film have done a lot to break the stereotype of good learning but boring, and quite a few of them may not be easily encouraged or even allowed in Chinese families.
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