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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s so sad that an Asian kid feels the need to hide identity because of discrimination. I’m white and I’m very empathetic to this. I’m sorry OP.[/quote]

There is nothing inherently wrong with discrimination. When you choose a salad as your side, you discriminate against the French fries. That isn’t the issue.

I have no problem with colleges that desire a diverse student body effectively putting a cap on how many students of a similar background they will accept.[/quote]

I wish American voters think the same way you think when they vote for POTUS.  Except for one, since independence we have had only white dudes for POTUS.  We need diversity at POTUS level - in terms of race, religion, and gender.[/quote]

In all fairness, for most of US history, there basically were only white people in the US. As recently as 1990, 86% of the voting public was non-hispanic white. The generations that could have been president for the past 60 years basically includes greatest generation, silent generation, and boomers. Even today, after a huge amount of immigration in the last two decades, boomers (the ages most commonly elected president) are something like 75% white. So it's disingenuous to imply that there is something odd about the racial makeup of past presidents, and even weirder to take it all the way back to "independence."[/quote]

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