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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jews were discriminated against until they gained political influence.
Once Asian Americans gain more influence economically and politically, which they will because they are a successful minority, the tides will change. [/quote]

Highly Doubtful. Jews have amazing group solidarity, especially on Jewish social rights issues.

Asians have zero group solidarity. What has Akaka, inouye, hirono, jindal, Haley, bharara, tanden, katyal, Srinivasan, nooyi,Nadella, pichai said or done anything about this?

Zero. Nothing. Nada.

You know that the head of the civil rights division at doj is an Asian American, yes?

She hasn't done shit about it either.

Asians are their own worst enemies on this issue.[/quote]

Asians also are a victim of their own success, unfortunately.  Want the American dream?  Only if you don't take it away from the "real" Americans.[/quote]

How did Jews successfully fight the quotas then? [/quote]
How long did it take for Jews to be "accepted" in this country?  How long have Asian Americans been a sizeable group in this country, even more so, started applying en massse to elite universities?

None of this happens over night.

"Jews at Harvard tripled to 21% of the freshman class in 1922 from about 7% in 1900.[b] Ivy League Jews won a disproportionate share of academic prizes and election to Phi Beta Kappa but were widely regarded as competitive, eager to excel academically and less interested in extra-curricular activities such as organized sports. Non-Jews accused them of being clannish, socially unskilled and either unwilling or unable to“fit in.”[/b]

--sounds exactly like how some describe Asian American students.

continuing....

"In 1922, Harvard's president, A. Lawrence Lowell, proposed a quota on the number of Jews gaining admission to the university. Lowell was convinced that Harvard could only survive if the majority of its students came from old American stock.

Lowell argued that cutting the number of Jews at Harvard to a maximum of 15% would be good for the Jews, because [b]limits would prevent further anti-Semitism. Lowell reasoned, “The anti-Semitic feeling among the students is increasing, and it grows in proportion to the increase in the number of Jews. If their number should become 40% of the student body, the race feeling would become intense.[/b]”"

-- again, sound exactly like what's happening to Asian American students.

"In the late 1930s, James Bryant Conant, Lowell's successor as president, eased the geographic distribution requirements, and Jewish students were once again admitted primarily on the basis of merit."

So, a jewish student started the battle in 1922, and in 1930, the new Harvard President eased the restrictions...so 7 yrs?

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/harvard.html[/quote]

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