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Is the spelling bee success of Indian-Americans a legacy of British colonialism?

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imageSpeller Jairam Hathwar from Painted Post, New York in the championship round of the 2016 National Spelling Bee.Shalini Shankar, CC BY

When spellers win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, audiences always want to know their secret. Yet this question seems to be asked far more in recent years in response to an Indian-American winning streak.

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