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Honestly, I take all these witness accounts with a grain of salt. We live in a very "poor me" society today, and it's sometimes difficult to tell the difference between painful, traumatizing discrimination and just dealing with being different, through no fault of anyone's.

I was educated in different countries because of my father's job. During one 4 year stretch, I was not only the [u]sole foreigner[/u], but also the [u]sole mixed-ethnicity student[/u] of the entire school. I was bullied and teased for a little while, but I dealt with it and made good friends. It felt absolutely no different than later on, when I went to an international, diverse school full of kids of mixed ethnicity.

So suck it up, kiddos. We all have to deal with things.

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I'm assuming you didn't hear the NPR discussion.  This [u]child[/u] sounded visibly upset as she talked about how she would have given up the equity and resources associated with her Whitman experience if she wouldn't known then what she knows now.  She talked about how some student were called the "n" word, and how the vast majority of students didn't care about discrimination because they never had to think about it themselves.  And that her experience in the Minority Scholars Program was a saving grace.

But good for you, I guess?  You assume your experience was similar to hers, and that therefore she should just suck it up.  Nice going.

If anyone wants to listen, it's around the 49:00 mark.

https://thekojonnamdishow.org/audio/#/shows/2019-02-28/kojo-roadshow-a-town-hall-on-school-diversity-in-montgomery-county/113756/@00:00

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I feel bad for her. Really I do, but unfortunately this can happen at any school where a student is really just one of the few who are like them. I'm Asian and when we first moved to this country, I attended a school where it was predominantly Blacks and Latinos. I was literally one of maybe 3-4 Asian kids (if that)  in my grade. I got teased a lot and it was tough. This is why TRULY diverse schools are important.  [/quote]

The two experiences are not completely analogous.  I believe you that your experience was tough as an Asian kid in a black/Latino school.  However, it likely includes different dynamics than the experience of an AA girl in an all-white, affluent school.  It's different for those who experienced a long history of oppression in this country.

-black and Asian PP, and 1st-gen American[/quote]

[b]It is waaaaaaaay easier to be an AA girl in an all-white, affluent school than being an Asian kid in a black/ Latino, non-affluent school.[/b]

If you don't get that...[/quote]

How can you say that with such authority and conviction when you don't know what she experienced?  How can you be 100% her experience was "waaaaaaay easier?"[/quote]

I'm not the PP.

Her individual experience may be an exception - I don't know. But in general I think the PP's statement is very true. [/quote]

Why? I want to respond with "citation needed" but I truly and non sarcastically don't understand why you believe that. What goes into that belief?[/quote]

Let me put it this way:
if you as AA parents, whether they would be willing to put their kids in an all-white, affluent school; or if you ask Asian parent, whether they want to put their kids in a black/ Latino, non-affluent school,
do you think there would be a difference in the answers you get, statistically?

Apparently I do.

That is one way to look at this.
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