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Lesson 1 Paper Tigers What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends? 当考试结束时，所有的亚裔美国人都会有怎样的表现呢？ By Wesley Yang Published May 8,2011 para 1 SometimesI ’ll glimpse my reflection in a window and feel astonished by what I see. Jet-black hair. Slanted eyes.A pancake-flat surface of yellow-and-green-tonedskin. An expressionthat is nearly reptilian in its impassivity. I ’ve contrived to think of this face as the equal in beauty to any other. But what I feel in these moments is its strangeness to me. It ’s my face. I can ’ have to do with me? 有时我会从窗户里瞥见我的倒影，我会对我所看到的感到惊讶。乌黑的头发。斜眼。黄绿色肤色的薄 煎饼状的表面。 一种近乎爬行动物般冷漠的表情。 我想方设法地认为这张脸在美貌上与其他任何人都 不相上下。但在这些时刻我感觉到的是它对我来说很奇怪。这是我的脸。我不能否认。但这和我有什 么关系呢？ Para 2 Millions of Americans must feel estranged from their own faces. But every self-estranged individual is estranged in his own way. I, for instance, am the child of Korean immigrants, but I do not speak my parents ’ native tongue. I have never dated a Korean woman. I don ’ am an immigrant, I have never wanted to strive like one. 一定有无数的美国人对他们自己的长相会有一种疏离感 ,但是其中每个人的原因却又不尽相同。以我 自己为例 ,我是韩国移民的后裔 ,但我却不会讲我父母的母语。 我从未跟韩国女性约过会 ,甚至都没有韩 国朋友。虽然我是移民 ,但是我从未想过像移民那样努力奋斗。 para 3 You could say that I am a banana. But while I don’tbelieve our roots necessarilydefine us, I do believe there are racially inflected assumptions wired into our neural circuitry. And although I am in most respects devoid of Asian characteristics, I do have an Asian face. 你可能会说我是亚裔美国人。虽然我并不认为一个人的种族出身就会决定他的一切 ,但我相信对各个 种族的成见已经深深地植入了我们的思想里。尽管在很多方面 ,我已经没了什么亚洲人的特点，但我 确实长着一张亚洲人的脸。 para 4 Here is what I sometimes suspectmy face signifies to other Americans: An invisible person, barely d