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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]

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376 points undefined1 | 1 comments | 25 Apr 20 00:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mydongle ◴[25 Apr 20 02:33 UTC] No.22975056[source]▶
Like one greyed out poster said, no one cares - about Asian Americans in the U.S. There is likely no other minority group where if something like this were occuring against them, that it would just be accepted. Hell, it wouldn't even be up for debate. Yet with Asians, here we are. No one being fired or cancelled, no action being taken, no one going to bat for Asians in this country like they would've if it were an African American, Mexican, or other minority group.
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undefined1 ◴[25 Apr 20 02:44 UTC] No.22975115[source]▶
It seems like crab mentality at work. Pulling down those that succeed the most.

Asian Americans are top performers, both in academics and income:

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizat...

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1. adchari ◴[25 Apr 20 15:32 UTC] No.22978845[source]▶
The top performer attributes are also interesting, the majority of Asian immigrants come to the US with a technical job, resulting in children who tend to succeed in similar subjects and overall, as their parents are an easy role model, and are relatively well off.

This, of course, can be attributed to things like the Chinese Exclusion Act, etc., which made it extraordinarily hard to immigrate to the US from Asian countries, so only well-off and educated individuals could get here.