The Mission San Gabriel Arc\u00e1ngel was visible from my high school.
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I grew up in a fairly monochromatic white neighborhood in southern California, specifically in the suburban Los Angeles County city of San Gabriel. \u00a0There was, so far as I\u2019m aware, one Jew at my high school. \u00a0(He was the son of the local rabbi.) \u00a0Many of the area Catholics attended a parochial school attached to the San Gabriel Mission, which had been founded in 1771 by Fray Angel Francisico de Sonera and Fray Pedro Benito Cambon. \u00a0There were lots and lots of Hispanics at my high school (though not at my elementary school), and the whole area was trending heavily Hispanic by the time I left for college and mission and marriage and graduate school, but gringos and Mexicans tended to keep, by and large, to themselves. \u00a0And, frankly, the student leadership and the honors societies at San Gabriel High School were largely, if not entirely, non-Hispanic. \u00a0Suddenly, though, five or ten years after I graduated, the area turned rapidly and, soon, overwhelmingly Asian \u2014 Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese \u2014 which it still is. \u00a0And one thing that accompanied the influx of Asians was the arrival of small private schools designed to supplement what Asian parents plainly regarded as the insufficiently rigorous education at area high schools. \u00a0No such schools had existed during the white Protestant ascendancy, and the surge of Hispanic population hadn\u2019t brought them, either. \u00a0But Asian influence brought them almost immediately. \u00a0After regular classes were over, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese kids crossed the street to \u201cLittle Harvard Academy\u201d or some such thing, for another two or three hours of mathematics and science. \u00a0Their cultures\u2019 strong emphasis on academic competitiveness was unmistakably visible \u2014 and indisputably different.<\/p>\n
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