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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry that now they are not supposed to ask higher standards for Asians.[/quote]
 Not everything is about Asian people. A lot of these schools were reducing their white students to accommodate for Asian and students of color.[/quote]
Thank you! When did people become so black-Asian binary?  If you don’t feel comfortable at a top liberal arts college, you probably shouldn’t be going to college.[/quote]
I also noticed this change where conversations with black students get filled with discussions about Asian students and vice versa.

There’s a lot Asian and black students can relate to if they let their guard down [/quote]

Asians feel threatened in their identify as Americans whem African Americans are being talked about, and they are not.

Asian Americans react defensively to discussions of African-Americans because the model-minority narrative relies on contrasting Asian success with the African American struggle, so highlighting systemic racism undercuts a storyline many families feel protects their status; policy debates over affirmative action and selective-school admissions are cast as zero-sum, making some parents fear that more attention to African American issues could translate into lost opportunities for their own children; and newer immigrants often absorb U.S. politics through ethnic-language media, which peddles in the zero-sum game.[/quote]

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