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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is discrimination against Asians and whites that different?
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Yes. Being White is a net-neutral to slightly negative factor.

Being Asian is a materially negative factor.[/quote]

+1.

It's also sad that mixed Asians feel the need to try and downplay their Asianness in order to get a leg up. Not judging those who do, just a sad indictment on our society.[/quote]

My child chose to be honest rather than hide who she is because: she is proud of who she is, she does not want to go to a school that substracts points because of who she is. 
It would also have been obvious on her interviews.

Really, I think this topic is exaggerated and mostly of concern to the status-obsessed.

(My child also benefitted from teachers who "assumed"--and one told me this to my face--that she would be among the strongest students in the class because of her race. You have to accept the cards you are dealt, and make the best of the opportunities before you. Which are legion for strong students of any race.)[/quote]

Understood, PP. I'm OP. If my children were more connected to their Asian heritage, I would advise them to do that. But I think my question is more about what IS heritage? My kids have no cultural link or particular loyalty to this particular Asian culture (and don't forget this is Vietnam - heavy history, immigrants are not in love with the current socialist regime after so much repression). They DO feel European. So is it unethical to not check the Asian box in those circumstances? I guess it depends on every person's understanding of ethnic vs. cultural affiliation.
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