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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The system has been stacked against AAs for a long time. Most AA kids are still in low quality public schools. I think as a society, we deserve to give them a boost in college admissions. Yes, some wealthy AA families get an unfair boost but they are a minuscule number. I am a white parent and am eternally grateful that my kids don't have to deal with the stigma of racism, unconscious bias and police targeting. [b]Asians generally have a positive bias towards them which can be a help overall rather than an obstacle. [/b]Most people tend to generalize and assume when they meet an Asian person that they must be smart, hardworking and good at math whether that is actually true for the individual or not. Positive biases can be very helpful in pushing individuals along in life in a positive direction whether a person realizes it or not. [/quote]Most of what you wrote is reasonable, but this is not true. Any strong bias that prevents you from seeing a person as a whole is problematic. And while people stereotype Asians as smart, they also stereotype them as lacking creativity and being only book-smart. It can cut both ways. I was the top of my class at a competitive, private HS, and anyone who knew me at all knew that I had basically zero interest in going into a lucrative profession like medicine (both my parents were MDs). Guess what? In a local newspaper article about top students a school administrator with whom I had a good relationship, I thought, and whose class I was currently taking was talking about how I was planning to go to med school...based on literally nothing but the fact that I'm Indian-American.

Off-topic but ironically for this thread, I also had turned down admission to Harvard, which was kind of a big deal to have done at the time.[/quote]

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