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Tibetan Buddhist monks find inner peace
: Marc Kaufman, “Meditation Gives Brain a
Charge, Study Finds,” 
Washington Post
, January 3, 2005.
19.
 
“Their civility has been well documented”
: Lydia Millet, “The Humblest of Victims,” 
New
York Times
, August 7, 2005.
20.
 
Westernization of the past several decades
: See, for example, Xinyin Chen et al., “Social
Functioning and Adjustment in Chinese Children: The Imprint of Historical Time,” 
Child
Development
76, no. 1 (2005): 182–95.
21.
 
One study comparing European-American
: C. S. Huntsinger and P. E. Jose, “A
Longitudinal Investigation of Personality and Social Adjustment Among Chinese American
and European American Adolescents,” 
Child Development
77, no. 5 (2006): 1309–24. Indeed,
the same thing seems to be happening to Chinese kids 
in China
as the country Westernizes,
according to a series of longitudinal studies measuring changes in social attitudes. While
shyness was associated with social and academic achievement for elementary school
children as recently as 1990, by 2002 it predicted peer rejection and even depression. See
Chen, “Social Functioning and Adjustment in Chinese Children.”
22.
 
The journalist Nicholas Lemann
: “Jews in Second Place,” 
Slate
, June 25, 1996.
23.
 
“A … E … U … O … I”
: These vowels were presented out of the usual sequence at Preston
Ni’s seminar.
24.
 
Gandhi was, according to his autobiography
: The story of Gandhi related in this chapter
comes primarily from 
Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1957), esp. 6, 20, 40–41, 59, 60–62, 90–91.
25.
 
The TIMSS exam
: I originally learned about this from Malcom Gladwell, 
Outliers: The Story
of Success
(New York: Little Brown and Company, 2008).
26.