[yosho]

Being an Asian American that fits the model minority stereotype, I already expressed my thoughts on Quora, specifically on affirmative action and racism which you can read here: http://qr.ae/TEVfO

It's fairly obvious to me that colleges do discriminate against Asians, and that this reverse racism does need to stop whether it's intentional or not.

Everyone here talks about how Asians are like this or like that... the reality is that Asians are a pretty diverse group of people, and while you do have your nerdy, book worm types, you also have Asians who were captains of their basketball team or who played football or another major sport. Most people who are at the top of their class are extremely gifted in more ways than one and good parenting isn't the only factor that gets them there. I have cousins who have 'tiger-mom' parents but their grades are still suffering. We need to stop generalizing everyone into the same buckets, that's part of the problem.

I'm all for diversity, I would love to see colleges adopt a race blind admission process and focus on all the criteria that they value and see what happens. I almost guarantee that we will see the Asian acceptance rates rise even with the focus on "diversity". Right now, it seems like it's straight forward discrimination at play that is guised as diversity seeking... since by diversity, what they're really saying is that we want less Asians in our top schools.

[hashmymustache]

I don't disagree with you, but I'm curious how you explain the test performance disparity across races. If you look at the top public high school, TJ, blacks/hispanics compose 4% of the class at 25% of the population while asians make up 60% of the class at 5% of the population. Is it because asians are that much more naturally gifted?

I realize with regard to affirmative action that race is a poor proxy for socioeconomic status, but it is statistically practical with regard to cultural values. You mentioned "I went to an Ivy League school, I fit the Asian model minority stereotype pretty well." How much did your parents influence your priorities in weighing education?

One of the issues seems to be that colleges are attempting to address institutionalized racism too late in students' lives.

[newnewnew]

If a child grows us with a crummy culture with regards to education, has he experienced "institutionalized racism"?

I feel like the english language is being rapidly perverted.

[hashmymustache]

Well black kids were first let into white schools in 1960. That's 50 years ago. You don't think that exclusion shaped cultural views toward education?

[bromang]

" Is it because asians are that much more naturally gifted?"

Why not?

[newnewnew]

There is no such thing as reverse racism. It is just racism.

> "by diversity, what they're really saying is that we want less Asians in our top schools."

Actually, it means they want fewer whites and Asians.

[theorique]

Yes, the term commonly used is NAM (non-Asian minority).

As you correctly point out, AA typically privileges NAMs at the expense of Whites and Asians.