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I dont understand Asian Americans obsession with being "discriminated" against for schools or college. Bias against Asian Americans is that you are smarter than other people, better at math, etc. [b]Asian Americans also make more than any other race for the same job with the same education in the same location. [/b][/quote]

This is only true at the white collar level.  If you get outside the office into blue collar, retail and anywhere under the median income, Asians make about 70-85% of comparable white incomes.  And even so, it's not like it's a huge advantage.  In the white collar jobs, Asian Americans make about 104-112% by comparison.  So they make a small amount more at the white collar level, but a lot less at the lower levels.

Additionally, while white collar professionals may make slightly more than their white equivalents, the real distinction is that there is a glass ceiling.  Asian Americans are frequently discriminated against in leadership positions.  There are far fewer API in supervisory or management positions and there is virtually no representation at the C-suite level.  Outside of historically Asian areas like Hawaii and certain parts of California, there are extremely low levels in elected offices.   They are underrepresented in media, including news media.  Hollywood continues to whitewash movies and even cast characters written as Asian with white actors (see Last Airbender, Dr. Strange and a host of others).  If there is a part specifically written for an Asian, it is less than 50-50 that it will actually be cast with an Asian actor.

So, as it typical, white posters cherry pick what they view when considering whether a minority is discriminated against.  Things have been better since the civil rights era when many of the anti-Asian laws on the books across the nation were struck down, but there is still a huge amount of anti-Asian discrimination in this country.  [/quote]

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