S. Bureau of Census, 1999, p.ß1). Twenty-seven percent of these Asian-American college students reported that English was not their strongest language with regard to reading and speaking.
Despite the growth of minority representation in higher education, the experience of many students is still one of marginality. Marginality is the experience of being on the edges, or fringes of the community or society. It is to be almost an outsider, but certainly not one of the mainstream. There have been many attempts to describe marginality, including those by Park and Stonequist during the earlier part of this century. It was Park (1950, n.p.) who first concluded that the failure of racial assimilation in the United States that was the cause of marginalization. With this failure came the creation of marginal men and women who stayed at the outskirts of society, never becoming part of the mainstream culture.
However, there is another theory that marginality was created intentionally by elite groups, and that this country was never really intended to be
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