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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asian societies are among the most racist in the world and many Asian-Americans display the same attitudes in this country.  And we're not talking about attitudes about quotas here; we're talking about people prepared to make sweeping statements about the inferiority of non-Asians.

Sorry, but I'd like to see less racism in Asian countries and among Asian-Americans in the states before I get too worked up over purported discrimination against Asians who are already over-represented in elite institutions of higher learning.  As it is, it just seems like an attempt to grab control of American institutions that will only exacerbate current inequalities in our society.  [/quote]

You make a sweeping racial generalization about how a whole group of people are racist and use that as a reason not to care about whether or not that group faces racial discrimination.  Don't you see what a strange statement that is?  Who is the racist here - you or the Asian Americans you lump together.

I am an Asian American and do not see evidence that Asian Americans harbor more racial prejudice than other groups.  A clear majority of Asian Americans voted for Obama for President, Asian Americans have a fairly high rate of interracial marriage.  Definitely I have heard / seen racial prejudice from Asian Americans as I have seen from white Americans and other groups.  But it seems to me like you are more than ready to take some individual examples and generalize it to millions of people.[/quote]

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