Posted on 04/16/2011 7:27:05 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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After all the attention given to the stereotype that Asian-American parents put enormous pressure on their children to succeed – provoked over the winter by Amy Chua’s controversial Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – came the indisputable reality this spring that, even if Asian-American students work hard, the doors of top schools were still being slammed shut in many faces.
And parents aren’t happy about it. “The entry barriers are higher for us than for everybody else,” says Chi Chi Wu, one of the organizers of the Brookline Asian American Family Network. “There’s a form of redlining or holding Asian-American students to higher standards than any other group.”
Although Asian-Americans represent less than 5 percent of the US population (and slightly more than 5 percent in Massachusetts), they make up as much as 20 percent of students at many highly selective private research universities – the kind of schools that make it into top 50 national rankings.
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Even though the Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that universities can continue to consider race in admissions in the interest of diversity, admissions officers deny they’re screening out Asian-Americans. However, in researching their 2009 book No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal, Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade and researcher Alexandria Walton Radford examined data on students applying to college in 1997 and found what looks like different standards for different racial groups. They calculated that Asian-Americans needed nearly perfect SAT scores of 1550 to have the same chance of being accepted at a top private university as whites who scored 1410 and African-Americans who got 1100. Whites were three times, Hispanics six times, and blacks more than 15 times as likely to be accepted at a US university as Asian-Americans.
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“It smacks of unfairness, hypocrisy and elitism and has done more to alienate whites (and some Asians) from the Democrats than anything else.”
It has alienated us from the country; at this point I don’t care a whit for anyone not like me.
How about Bobby Jindal? I think you’ll see Asians increasingly turn to the Republicans as they understand more thoroughly how the tax code works; as a generally hard-working people, they have nothing but contempt for the permanent underclass they are expected to provide for.
I gotta ask, which “flavor” of “Asian-Americans” are we talking about....the ones with slanty eyes or the ones without (Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese/etc or Indian subcontinent).
“How about Bobby Jindal? I think you’ll see Asians increasingly turn to the Republicans...”
It would be interesting to see how Bobby figured it out regarding the Republicans. I haven’t heard myself.
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