{"id":12369,"date":"2012-02-19T23:02:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T23:02:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-19T23:02:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T23:02:38","slug":"More-than-half-of-Asian-American-teens-bullied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12369","title":{"rendered":"More than half of Asian American teens bullied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nearly one in three American students is bullied, according to government statistics. But the numbers are even higher for students in one racial group: Asian-Americans. A recent study says more than half of all Asian-American students are victims of bullying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to a UCLA study, 54 percent of Asian-American students report being the victims of bullies.<\/strong> That&#8217;s compared to 31.3 percent of whites, 38.4 percent of blacks and 34.3 percent of Hispanic students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s a nationwide problem.<\/strong> Tuan Nguyen, the director of the youth development program at Asian-American Family Services in Houston, says he talk to kids who complain about bullying, and it&#8217;s not isolated to one school nor one school district.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nguyen says the kids are targeted because they&#8217;re different and because they&#8217;re afraid to complain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re refugee families. 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