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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]

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376 points undefined1 | 2 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. frog_squid ◴[25 Apr 20 20:57 UTC] No.22981426[source]▶
Yes, for other minorities, instead of observing the rise in the educational and financial success of Asian Americans and using it as a motivational example, in some ways what Asian Americans took away from Jewish success in America, they point to Asian Americans being too competitive and try to enact racist quotas so Asians only compete with one another.

They took the easy way out. They can make a huge movement out of going into their own communities and educating their members on the value of hard work and knowledge and encouraging their own kids to excel from a very early age in the same way asian parents do. They can attach an underdog narrative to it and show the world that through sheer motivation and will power they were able to, as a community, in a couple generations, rise up and improve themselves in a radical way. Instead they allocate their time to protesting and complaining that the system is unfair.

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2. bsanr2 ◴[26 Apr 20 16:08 UTC] No.22988106[source]▶
As explained throughout this comment section, much of success in America can be attributed to network affects, which are susceptible to social bias. That is the reason we talk about "Asian" and "Jewish" success, and not the success of individuals who happen to be Asian or Jewish.

Every group that becomes successful shuts their networks to black and brown people who are the descendents of the either de jure or de facto 2nd class. Asian startup founders do not take black people as business partners. Jewish academics do not mentor black students. White country clubs are still generally closed to everyone.

Cura te ipsum and all that.