On 07/10/09 14:49, Warp wrote:
>> This is a new one for me. My Asian colleague keeps pointing out
>> that they're never the beneficiaries of affirmative action (which
>> he is against).
>
> A cynic could say that Asians might not be "colored enough" to get
> special treatment...

	A lot of Indians are more colored than Hispanics.

	I'm not 100% sure, but I think affirmative action simply did not apply 
to Asians. Nor do I see why it should have - the whole premise of 
affirmative action did not apply to them, because statistically 
speaking, they do better than whites in academics (in the US - Europe 
may be a whole other story).

	The University of California system's undergrads are 37% Asian. They 
comprise only 12% of the population in California. Countrywide they're 
5% of the population. Yet at Stanford they have 24% representation, and 
27% at MIT. They have more than 10% of the student population in many of 
the country's top universities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/world/americas/07iht-asians.4125275.html

	We were actually discussing this a few days ago with my friend from 
Berkeley. Another colleague joked that the UC system should reinstate 
affirmative action so that more whites could get in.

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