Your delusional. Why is it just about Academic performance? That's NEVER been the US culture its always been academics plus outside things like sports, school clubs, extra curricular activities combined with GRADES. Things ASIANS usually ignore which is fine in their native culture bu the US culture which they DECIDED to immigrate too never just looked at GRADES. So we should changed US culture because ASIANS want to be more over represented in US colleges? That's Asian discrimination that Asian entitlement. |
Are you the same poster who was complaining a couple of days ago that Jews are over represented in elite universities? And now you're complaining that Asians are over represented? You are demonstrating a lot of hostility to these groups, and what did they ever do to you? All they want (and seem to do rather successfully) is study hard and get into top schools. Why are you so negative to them? They want the best for their kids just as you do for yours. Also, you seem to think that different groups should be "represented" in top schools in direct proportion to their populations. So if 10% of the country is Asian-American and 14% is African-American, then the school should have a student body that is 10% Asian and 14% Black. Wrong! You can't just dismiss entrance standards, which are established to predict who is likely to succeed in the program, and throw them to the wind. Asians, generally speaking, score much higher than Blacks, and Whites for that matter. It is only reasonable to expect they would be accepted top schools at a disproprtionate rate. |
Sorry Different poster, your confused I never made any comments about JEWS. No these groups are the one's showing hostility to American Blacks who face UNIQUE challenges in the country they help form. Unlike these other we didn't have the option to immigrate away from our social and economic constraints we had to do it the HARD WAY and CLIMB OUT OF THEM...which is totally different. You keep putting words in my mouth so you can DEFLECT away from my correct point. I never claimed universities need to have numbers representative of groups US population. My point is ASIANS are OVER REPRESENTED 2-3 times their population at EVER ELITE COLLEGE yet they get to claim "victim hood". I'm calling out the B.S. Yes Asians score higher than Blacks and Whites WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE 2-3 TIMES THEIR POPULATION AT ELITE SCHOOLS LOL. Where is the discrimination? They score higher so there are more of them. I'm not the one complaining about the Asian population is YOU ALL WHO ARE COMPLAINING saying some how they are being treated unfairly i'm just saying they are not |
Huh? You think Asian-Americans are hostile toward African-Americans? (I'm not Asian BTW.) If I had to guess, I could imagine that they are resentful that blacks get into the top colleges they wanted, and with lower grades and scores. I think the resentment is understandable (if it exists). Also, are you the PP who said that Affirmative Action policies were made to "correct" the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow? You almost make it sound as if it is a form of reparation, and that it should continue indefinitely. AA policies, which took root under JFK, were not developed specifically to help "make up" for slavery. They were meant to prohibit employers from discriminating based on color, race, and ethnic origin. So in other words, it was intended for a situation where you have an equally (or even superior) qualified black candidate, and you choose the white one regardless. You discriminated based on race, and favored the white guy. Nowhere did it say you have to hire the black guy even if the white guy is better qualified. But that's what it's evolved into. A policy that was originally designed to prohibit "color considerations" has now been turned around to instead consider color, but to put the advantage to the black person instead of the white. I'm one of several posters arguing for race-blind admissions, with points going to overcoming financial hardship. Blacks would still gain from the policy - and disproprtionately so, since they are disproprtionately from poorer backgrounds. |
| Love the PP who mentioned "generational wealth". My dad stood in a bread line during the Great Depression. Look at all the immigrants who have come with nothing. |
Came from nothing but had nothing taken away from them. Don't compare a select group who immigrated away from their poverty to people climbing out of it. I don't know what being in a Great Depression which is an economic issue for a decade has to do with centuries of Slavery and Jim Crow. Horrible analogy. Especially since blacks had to deal with a Great Depression as well as Jim Crow Laws. |
Name me where qualified White applicants are being passed for Black ones? When Black with a college degree have 2-3 times the unemployment RATE as WHITES. As far as Asians being resentful is absurd, they aren't forced to immigrate to a country where Affirmative Action has existed DECADES before they voluntarily came here. Thousands of other countries and colleges outside the US they could attend and hundreds of other countries their parents could immigrate too, or just stay in their native country. Once again how are they losing spots when they are 2-3 times their native population at every ELITE COLLEGE. LOL You guys want to still push this asian victimhood nonsense. Like I pointed out all POVERTY aint the SAME |
DP, but I think the point the first PP was making was in response to another poster who said blacks hadn't had the opportunity whites had to build "generational wealth" - as if all whites have been here for multiple generations building and passing on wealth. My grandparents arrived here penniless, as teenagers, and in ONE generation, my parents were middle class as young adults, and upper-middle class by their 40s. |
You seriously believe that Jewish kids are over-represented in elite universities because there is bias in their favor? I mean, what reality do you live in? Please show me data that suggests that Jewish kids are underperforming, or even comparably performing, the rest of the white applicant pool. I would be a lot of money that Jewish kids have higher stats than the broader white applicant pool. Jewish kids, who are identified as white applicants, are over-represented because Jewish-Americans tend to be wealthier and place a higher value on education. Also, I think a bunch of other social factors support Jewish families (low divorce rates, strong sense of community and willingness to help each other out, multi-generational family support, etc). *All* of these things are predictive of strong academic success, and will make them stand out in college application pools. They are simply the group of white Americans that outperform the rest of the high SES white Americans. So you seem to be arguing for quotas on Jews, or AA for non-Jewish whites compared to Jewish whites. |
Dude. Many Asian-Americans, particularly Chinese, immigrated to the US in the 19th Century to work on railroads. Also, remember Japanese- American internment camps? Those ethnic Japanese were land- and business-owners at a time when there was still Jim Crow in the South. You seem to be arguing that all Asian-Americans are recent immigrants, and that's simply wrong. |
| Asians > Whites > hispanics > blacks end thread |
Popcorn time! |
Surely you understand the difference between your grandparents (who likely arrived here in the '40s or '50s) and the opportunities they had compared to the average black person's grandparents and the opportunities they were shut out from until the late '60s and '70s? I grew up in the Midwest (Michigan, so not a former slave state), and there was a country club near me that didn't integrate until the '90s. Until then black members were openly excluded. Now ask yourself why your grandparents and parents might have had a somewhat easier time amassing resources than a black American might have had. |
Mexicans > Ukranians > Russians > Chinese > North Indians > South Indians for H1Bs end thread |
Interesting you bring up the country club example. We lived near a country club that openly excluded Jews, although we were "permitted" on the premises as guests for specific events (like if there was a wedding). As far as my grandparents, you've guessed me for too young, My grandparents were teens in the late 20s, having escaped horrors that befell their European families just a few years later, and faced a lot of antisemitism here at home. People didn't want to hire Jews, and by the time my father was ready for college in the 1950s, he faced terrible discrimination. Even so, they moved from poverty to UMC in the span of a single generation. I brought this up to negate the poster (maybe it's you) who seemed to be under the impression that whites have been in this country, amassing "generational wealth" since the 1700s. Most people can trace their ancestry to someone who came in at Ellis Island, which opened around 1900. |