It is worth noting that the standard American tests of success that they have flunked are almost exclusively economic. If one applied social indices instead-such as rates of crime, child abuse, illegitimacy, and divorce-the Hmong would probably score better than most refugee groups {and also better than most Americans}, but those are not the forms of success to which our culture assigns its highest priority.
( Anne Fadiman )
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