Discrimination against Asians

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crybabies. Figure it out.

- A Jew (we’re also not good at sports, but have figured out how to be represented across the board in industries that don’t require physical prowess)

Dude, you’re white.

Jews came to America 4-5 decades prior to Asians. Asians will indeed figure it out through hard work and sacrifice just as the Jews did.

I’m from NY and many of my friends were Jewish. Asians and Jews have similar values.

And over time, traditional values become diluted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crybabies. Figure it out.

- A Jew (we’re also not good at sports, but have figured out how to be represented across the board in industries that don’t require physical prowess)

Dude, you’re white.

Jews came to America 4-5 decades prior to Asians. Asians will indeed figure it out through hard work and sacrifice just as the Jews did.

I’m from NY and many of my friends were Jewish. Asians and Jews have similar values.

And over time, traditional values become diluted.

Pp here. DH and I grew up in America and did very well professionally. Our kids are very American. They are good students but lack the drive that DH and I had growing up children of poor immigrants. I’m sure they will be fine. They have a killer golf swing, play tennis, have been skiing since they were toddlers and well traveled. They want for nothing. All our kids have high emotional intelligence and very social.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crybabies. Figure it out.

- A Jew (we’re also not good at sports, but have figured out how to be represented across the board in industries that don’t require physical prowess)

Dude, you’re white.

Jews came to America 4-5 decades prior to Asians. Asians will indeed figure it out through hard work and sacrifice just as the Jews did.

I’m from NY and many of my friends were Jewish. Asians and Jews have similar values.

And over time, traditional values become diluted.

Some jews can hide their jewishness. Asians can't do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Asian immigrants chase whatever brass ring tells them is success. In FCPS, it's TJ. Go over to MCPS and they fight to get into the selective STEM magnet at Blair and even the IB magnet at Richard Montgomery.

You make it sound like Asians aren't supposed to aspire for the top schools? Is there a hint of disdain in your tone?

Anonymous wrote:
It's admirable to some extent, and it's not their fault that FCPS designates a single school as a STEM magnet. What many don't seem to realize is that their success at a single school also sends a negative message to everyone else: you're not good enough, you're not smart enough, and you shouldn't be studying STEM, either.

Why does the success of Asians send that message to you?

Anonymous wrote:
There are a lot more people who'll be able to make a living in the future with a STEM background than playing for the NBA, so the local Asians really need to stop making those analogies about Asian under-representation in the NBA and the NFL if they want to be taken seriously. All that does is convey the message to others that they may be book-smart but have little empathy for others (i.e., have very low emotional IQs). That's not the American way and people who behave like that create their own glass ceilings.

You do realize calling Asians book-smart but having low emotional IQs is a stereotype? Somehow it's ok to stereotype Asians? Maybe you should check your implicit bias.

Asians get dumped on by society in many ways. Most other races never seem to acknowledge it, and it's troubling that we're supposed to just accept getting discriminated against.

Anonymous wrote:
And, then, it's up to the county to do what best meets the educational needs of all the kids in the county, and not just the top Asian students, both at TJ and in FCPS more broadly. Hopefully they can do that without denigrating the importance of STEM education. If a good STEM education can only be found at one high school, that's a much larger indictment of the system that itself ought to warrant fundamental change.

Yes, the county needs to do more, but this is not it.

I'd feel better about these changes if URMs were getting the lions share of the benefits, but that's not the case.

I'm fine with admitting more URMs, but at least let Asians compete against white people. Asians aren't even getting a chance to compete. Is that how it's supposed to be?

I don't like the message it sends. It's not ok for Asians to succeed. Asians don't really deserve their achievements and need to be put in their place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crybabies. Figure it out.

- A Jew (we’re also not good at sports, but have figured out how to be represented across the board in industries that don’t require physical prowess)

Dude, you’re white.

Jews came to America 4-5 decades prior to Asians. Asians will indeed figure it out through hard work and sacrifice just as the Jews did.

I’m from NY and many of my friends were Jewish. Asians and Jews have similar values.

And over time, traditional values become diluted.

Some jews can hide their jewishness. Asians can't do that.

My Asian husband acts like a rich white man. He grew up in an all white neighborhood, went to a predominately white college and the majority of his professional colleagues are white. His interests are of that of waspy white men. Of course he doesn’t have white skin but he dresses the same and acts the same for the most part.

[Anonymous]

Why don't the learning centers just cut to the chase and hand out bona fide high school diplomas themselves? A parchment from CL would trump one from TJ. All this aptitude test prepping and pre-ordained selection is borderline eugenics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crybabies. Figure it out.

- A Jew (we’re also not good at sports, but have figured out how to be represented across the board in industries that don’t require physical prowess)

Dude, you’re white.

Jews came to America 4-5 decades prior to Asians. Asians will indeed figure it out through hard work and sacrifice just as the Jews did.

I’m from NY and many of my friends were Jewish. Asians and Jews have similar values.

And over time, traditional values become diluted.

Pp here. DH and I grew up in America and did very well professionally. Our kids are very American. They are good students but lack the drive that DH and I had growing up children of poor immigrants. I’m sure they will be fine. They have a killer golf swing, play tennis, have been skiing since they were toddlers and well traveled. They want for nothing. All our kids have high emotional intelligence and very social.

You cannot really compare fresh immigrants coming to the US in search of a better life with children whose families have been here for generations. The drive won’t be there, there is no need really, they have nothing to prove. Many native born Americans have ambition, but it’s different, there is complacency. Eventually, the desperate need to succeed will wane. It’s a trait predominantly found in fresh new immigrants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crybabies. Figure it out.

- A Jew (we’re also not good at sports, but have figured out how to be represented across the board in industries that don’t require physical prowess)

Dude, you’re white.

Jews came to America 4-5 decades prior to Asians. Asians will indeed figure it out through hard work and sacrifice just as the Jews did.

I’m from NY and many of my friends were Jewish. Asians and Jews have similar values.

And over time, traditional values become diluted.

Some jews can hide their jewishness. Asians can't do that.

My Asian husband acts like a rich white man. He grew up in an all white neighborhood, went to a predominately white college and the majority of his professional colleagues are white. His interests are of that of waspy white men. Of course he doesn’t have white skin but he dresses the same and acts the same for the most part.

Ask him how many times he's been complimented on his command of the English language. People don't compliment Jewish or WASPy people on their command of English, it's implied like many other things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crybabies. Figure it out.

- A Jew (we’re also not good at sports, but have figured out how to be represented across the board in industries that don’t require physical prowess)

Dude, you’re white.

Jews came to America 4-5 decades prior to Asians. Asians will indeed figure it out through hard work and sacrifice just as the Jews did.

I’m from NY and many of my friends were Jewish. Asians and Jews have similar values.

And over time, traditional values become diluted.

Some jews can hide their jewishness. Asians can't do that.

My Asian husband acts like a rich white man. He grew up in an all white neighborhood, went to a predominately white college and the majority of his professional colleagues are white. His interests are of that of waspy white men. Of course he doesn’t have white skin but he dresses the same and acts the same for the most part.

Ask him how many times he's been complimented on his command of the English language. People don't compliment Jewish or WASPy people on their command of English, it's implied like many other things.

+1 I'm the ^^PP who stated you can't hide being Asian.. and that actually did happen to me... "wow, you speak and write so well..." My white male college professor said this to me in front of the whole class (predominantly white and conservative - I went to a university in a conservative part of the country way back when) as he was passing out our graded exam essays. And no, it was not because I really do write well. I write above average, but not really "well". Maybe he was impressed that I wrote better than my white "real" American peers. LOL

No matter how much you act white, you can't hide your Asian face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crybabies. Figure it out.

- A Jew (we’re also not good at sports, but have figured out how to be represented across the board in industries that don’t require physical prowess)

Dude, you’re white.

Jews came to America 4-5 decades prior to Asians. Asians will indeed figure it out through hard work and sacrifice just as the Jews did.

I’m from NY and many of my friends were Jewish. Asians and Jews have similar values.

And over time, traditional values become diluted.

Some jews can hide their jewishness. Asians can't do that.

My Asian husband acts like a rich white man. He grew up in an all white neighborhood, went to a predominately white college and the majority of his professional colleagues are white. His interests are of that of waspy white men. Of course he doesn’t have white skin but he dresses the same and acts the same for the most part.

Ask him how many times he's been complimented on his command of the English language. People don't compliment Jewish or WASPy people on their command of English, it's implied like many other things.

+1 I'm the ^^PP who stated you can't hide being Asian.. and that actually did happen to me... "wow, you speak and write so well..." My white male college professor said this to me in front of the whole class (predominantly white and conservative - I went to a university in a conservative part of the country way back when) as he was passing out our graded exam essays. And no, it was not because I really do write well. I write above average, but not really "well". Maybe he was impressed that I wrote better than my white "real" American peers. LOL

No matter how much you act white, you can't hide your Asian face.

This may or may not have happened when he was younger but certainly does not happen now. He is very well regarded in his profession. No one would say that he speaks English well. How ridiculous. This is not the 80s. Come on.

[Anonymous]

Pp again. No one has told me I speak English well since I was a child. I can’t think of a time anyone said this to me in college, grad school or during my professional life. I have occasionally had foreigners comment that I am obviously American because of my American accent.

[Anonymous]

I think it's sad that apparently we have such a scarcity of good education that people get up in arms about what school(s) they do or don't get access to.

And in a time when our leadership is blaming Asia and Asians for a deadly pandemic, I think we are going to see more and more discrimination against Asians. Reverse admissions discrimination is just one facet of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's sad that apparently we have such a scarcity of good education that people get up in arms about what school(s) they do or don't get access to.

And in a time when our leadership is blaming Asia and Asians for a deadly pandemic, I think we are going to see more and more discrimination against Asians. Reverse admissions discrimination is just one facet of that.

There was a lot of black on Asian racism with coronavirus. My Asian friends have told me that black people have yelled, cursed and screamed at them while they tried to go grocery shopping.

[Anonymous]

Pp here. When I was a kid, the Rodney King riots were a big deal. Many Asian businesses suffered as blacks took out their frustrations by looting Asian owned businesses. Some things never change. Scapegoat the Asians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crybabies. Figure it out.

- A Jew (we’re also not good at sports, but have figured out how to be represented across the board in industries that don’t require physical prowess)

Dude, you’re white.

Jews came to America 4-5 decades prior to Asians. Asians will indeed figure it out through hard work and sacrifice just as the Jews did.

I’m from NY and many of my friends were Jewish. Asians and Jews have similar values.

And over time, traditional values become diluted.

Some jews can hide their jewishness. Asians can't do that.

My Asian husband acts like a rich white man. He grew up in an all white neighborhood, went to a predominately white college and the majority of his professional colleagues are white. His interests are of that of waspy white men. Of course he doesn’t have white skin but he dresses the same and acts the same for the most part.

Ask him how many times he's been complimented on his command of the English language. People don't compliment Jewish or WASPy people on their command of English, it's implied like many other things.

The discrimination of Asian immigrants mirrors that of the discrimination of immigrants more than a century ago. Italians, Irish, Jews, etc. were all discriminated against to varying degrees. It is difficult being a first generation immigrant here, as it would be anywhere in the world, I would imagine. I am sure if we could see two generations into the future, your Asian grandchildren and great grandchildren will not be discriminated against like they are today.