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UC-Davis Students: Sumo Wrestling Fat Suit Amounts to Anti-Asian Racism, White Supremacy
This comment captures it best:
Difficult to distinguish sincere social justice activism from parody.
Basically UC Davis has a block party, and part of it was a fat suit opportunity.
My thought was intent is a large portion of how something should be judged as racist or not.
I remember that Sumo is now dominated by non Japanese now at the top levels.
UC-Davis Students: Sumo Wrestling Fat Suit Amounts to Anti-Asian Racism, White Supremacy - Reason Magazine
Labels: Racism
Asian American Lawsuit against Ivy League Admissions
64 organizations filed a discrimination suit against Harvard, with the US Education Dept.
At Cal Tech which is race neutral, 46% of under-graduates are Asian. In the Ivy League, 21%. UC Berkeley is at least 42%, may be over 50% when International students are included.
Asians have to score for Harvard Admissions:
- 140 points higher than white students
- 270 points higher than Hispanic students
- 450 points higher than African-American
Good statistics.
Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans - WSJ
Yes, next question.
Do Ivy League schools have a 'bamboo ceiling' on admissions? - China Daily USA
A good read, sad, but believable.
Side note, so how would you hide the amount of Asian attending UC Berkeley?
http://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data
By listing ethnicity by country background! And break out International as a separate category. Note this is not done for Hispanics...
Related Posts:
Labels: Chinese Americans, college admissions, Racism
Harvard Sued for Asian Affirmative Action Discrimination
I am surprised this is taking so long to happen. There has been other complaints such as one I blogged about in 2008, but they did not seem to go anywhere. My guess by using a lawsuit, instead of a complaint there will be more impact.
So who is Project on Fair Representation that filed the suit? It was founded in 2005. They are also involved in Fisher v University of Texas, that the Supreme Court sent back to a lower court, but looks like it's coming back.
So what happened to similar type discrimination that was done to people who were Jewish to the Ivy League? When did that stop? Or has it stopped?
My 2 cents:
- Asians are being discriminated against through admission processes by looking at the whole life experience, and second looks at minority files, etc.
- The core issue should be figuring out why Asian students do better than other races in the US in college admissions, And it's not genetic, and since Asians are a minority, it's not due to historic discrimination issues since there is a long history of racial discrimination against Chinese in the US.|
- Make the required changes to help everyone achieve their full education potential. The high school drop out rate among certain ethnic groups is a crime. I did my student teaching at a high school with a 60% drop out rate.
- Giving admissions to people without the skills to succeed to elite institutions, just results in a high failure rate. Or they change to majors that are not as hard. What has been seen in California through the end of affirmative action (theoretically) in admissions, is an increase in non Asian graduation as people go to a school appropriate to their skill level.
References:
Harvard sued over affirmative action policy in admissions - Boston Globe
Rejected Asian students sue Harvard over admissions that favor other minorities | Fox News
Do Asian-Americans Face Bias in Admissions at Elite Colleges? - NY Times 2012
Cheating: An Insider's Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA ( TaxProfBlog)
The Dark Chain of Events to Your Kid's Ivy League Rejection - Bloomberg
Racism Against Chinese in the US - Timeline - Childbook.com Labels: affirmative action, college admissions, Racism
Asian Quotas in Schools? Ivy's, UC's, NYC Schools, and ?
I am surprised that even with the Asian percentage of the US college age population doubling, the amount admitted to the Ivy League has stayed the same. This sounds very suspicious, and similar to the Jewish Quotas that were done in the 1920's. And it seems very similar tactics are being used, where instead of relying on exam scores the application process has gone into a holistic approach. NYC in their top schools uses an exam only for admissions, and there is pressure to change this since a huge percentage of students at the top schools are Asian. The key with a holistic process, is it's easier to hide discrimination. Sports, Leadership, hardships are ways that I have seen as part of the holistic process.
The danger of a holistic approach, is admitting students who are unable to compete academically. This results in a higher drop out rate, or the student changing to a less demanding major. If the student had gone to less challenging school, the student would do better academically. And by going to a college better suited for their academic ability, you actually have a higher overall graduation rate for African American and Hispanic students in UC's. In California, Asian's have about 3X more students, than their share of the population per this article from the Wall Street Journal.
Holistic applications are used as a way around requirements of race neutral application processes. UCLA has done this, where they have made the application process favor some races over others. The result is a poor Asian student at UCLA, with the same grades, SAT, and other factors has 50% the chance of admission, to a rich African American student.
Ron Unz has an excellent article about how the Ivy League is withholding data, so it's hard to prove what is going on. Asian Quotas in the Ivy League? “We See Nothing! Nothing!” - The Unz Review. The We see nothing, nothing is a reference to Sgt Schultz from Hogan's Hero's signature line, I see Nothing. I grew up watching that show.
My 2 cents on College Admissions:
- Admissions to College should be Color Blind. All students should have an equal chance, based on their academic performance.
- It would be great if somebody did something like Google is doing for employees, and find out what makes a successful college graduate.
- There is a problem with schools, where many schools turn out students who are unable to compete academically at top schools. I view this problem as a huge issue for having a good society that everyone can perform to their full potential, and I hope it gets solved.
- The amount of space at UC's should be increased, to correspond with the increase in California's population. over the past 50 years.
- The California College Master Plan needs to be revisited If you need proof, just ask any student attending a California community college on their experience getting classes...
- The cost of a top education needs to be reduced. $62,000 a year for a top private school such as Duke with Room and Board does not make economic sense.
- Online Education should be used, when appropriate by colleges, as a way to reduce overall costs.
Labels: college, college admissions, Mixed Race, Racism
China demands satellite data as weather stops search
I don't understand all the twists and turns on the missing Malaysia Airlines.
From what little I picked up:
- The flight was going from Malaysia to China.
- Malaysia has affirmative action for native Malaysians - basically punishing Indians and Chinese for doings too well.
- Malaysia's government does not want to be pained with the term, Islamic Terrorism, and are doing there best to avoid it. The country is majority Islamic.
- The opposition and government have a horrible relationship.
- It appears there was a deliberate disabling of communicating / location devices.
- Nobody knows what happened
China demands satellite data as weather stops search - NY Post
Labels: accidents, Ethnic Chinese, Racism
NY Schools Segregated?
The headline in the Daily Mail article is misleading and link bait , but this paragraph brings up a lot of questions:
At elite Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan, just seven black students and 21 Latino students were admitted this year compared to the 164 white students and 680 Asian students. It was the same story at Bronx Science, which admitted 557 Asian students, 252 white students, 50 Latinos and 18 black students, according to data reported in Drop Out Nation.
Questions that are not asked:
- Why do Black and Latino students do poorly on the standardized tests, compared to Asians?
- What percentage of the population is Asian, compared to everyone else?
- What is the typical income of the Asian students, compared to everyone else?
The article:
New York public schools segregation - Daily Mail
This entire topic I covered last year, but it has come back again. Hmm, I wonder what is driving this...
NY Elite Tests Favor Asians? Labels: Best Schools, New York, Racism
Affirmative Action California Redo?
I read about this a while ago, but got a bit busy to blog about it. I am glad it's dead.
My 2 cents on what happened:
- Proposition 209 in 1996 banned the use of race or ethnicity in admissions for public schools in California.
- Schools could get around the ban at a UC Level, through the use of a holistic method. Basically through your essay, if you said the right things you would get admitted. UC's also did everything they could to encourage minority students with special programs (I have a vivid memory of when my daughter mentioned a UC Berkeley Representative was at her High School, but would only talk to Black and Latino students, and no Asians). At a Cal State level, admissions is based on test scores and grades, due to lack of funding for a holistic methods.
- After 209 passed, at the top UC's the amount of Asian (mostly Chinese and some Koreans) have increased. UC Berkeley is now 39% Asian, where the Asian percentage of California's population is 14.9%. African American at UC Berkeley is 3%, and the percentage of population in California is 6.6%. 13% of UC Berkeley's undergraduate is Hispanic, compared to being 38.2% in California.
- SCA 5 is by a Latino Politician, Sen. Ed Hernandez from West Covina, who noticed the lack of Latino's in higher education compared to their percent of the population of California.
- After the democratic controlled senate voted on a party line vote, the Chinese senators got an earful from their Chinese constituents who feared their children would be discriminated against in admissions.
- UCLA and UC Berkeley to increase funding are letting in out of state and foreign students, who can pay full rate. 22% of UC Berkeley's undergraduate are foreign students for 2013.
My opinion, the real crimes are:
- What a horrible job the K-12 system has been doing for many Black and Latino students.
- The amount of spaces at UC's have not kept pace with the increase in California population
- The master plan for California's colleges is out of date.
- The huge growth at Colleges of administrator salaries and numbers.
- Many UC's not focused value for dollars spent by students. The cost to attend a UC is now around $30,000 per year. Tuition alone is $13,200 for CA residents, for non-residents it's $36,078.
- College admissions has become a crap shoot, where the admissions decisions often don't make sense - one of my daughter's friends was admitted to UC Berkeley, but not UC San Diego...
References:
“Vote No on SCA-5” petition - Over 113,000 people have signed the petition for No on repealing 209.
Blue on Blue Race Politics in California’s Academia - The American Interest
Affirmative action amendment has some Asian-Americans furious
- KPCC Labels: affirmative action, college admissions, Mixed Race, Racism
Rotten Banana?
Banana is a racial slur and it's strange that a Chinese newspaper used it to describe the departing US ambassador.
I don't understand why.
Pause, while I do a bit of research to figure out why this happened.
Banana's colors are Yellow the outside, but White inside. So Asian (Chinese), and American inside is how this would translate politically.
Gary Locke is third generation ethnic Chinese who was the US Ambassador to China for 2 1/2 years. His wife is a former TV reporter, and glamorous. Gary Locke grew up speaking Cantonese, so his Mandarin is not fluent.
China's government has an assumption, that is your ethnic Chinese, you are Chinese. That is why if your an American Chinese doing business in China, you have fewer rights than a non ethnic Chinese doing business there. Examples are business people who have been jailed in China over business deals, where non ethnic Chinese do not have this danger.
If your ethnic Chinese it's assumed you will favor China's government's view. If you have another view on China, than the official view, your seen as a traitor. There may have also been an issue, where Gary Locke was seen as humble, and did not flaunt his wealth.
References:
The Gary Locke Effect: Does Race Matter for a US Ambassador? - The Diplomat
Here’s why the Chinese government hated Gary Locke - Washington Post
China says farewell to Locke with racial slur - Seattle Times
Chinese Media Outlet Uses Racial Slur at US Envoy - ABC News
Why Ambassador Locke Is Really Leaving Beijing: Seattle Has Better Coffee - Forbes
Does Gary Locke speak Chinese? - uPenn
China's awkward 'banana' slip - CNN Opinion
Gary Locke Interview - Newsweek
Gary Locke for president? - MyNorthwest.com
Labels: Gary Locke, Racism, US Chinese Image
Reno's 1878 Chinatown Fire - Who did it?
They are all so beautiful - 5 Web episodes
The producer of Seeking Asian Women also produced 5 shorts for the web you can view at http://theyreallsobeautiful.com/
The first on Yellow Fever. Interesting to watch.
The entire inter-racial marriage between Asian and White has been interesting to observe in the US culture. The majority is between White Males, and Asian Females. I have seen a few with an Asian Male with a White Female.
Labels: chinese american marriage, interracial marriage, Racism
Jeremy Lin’s outlook on dealing with discrimination
Teachers Against Discrimination in Taiwan
Vancouver's Chinatown has seen good times and bad
NY Elite Tests Favor Asians?
A legal complaint was filed against NY using a single test for admission to Elite Public Schools in NY. The population is for all ages, but it still gives a general idea. In the article on the legal complaint, it does not mention which race is over represented - it is not White. I also don't know that much the location of racial groups in NYC, which may have some impact on admission.
Admissions - I created the table based on the data from the articles below, plus the Racial make up of New York City per Wikipedia.
Stuyvesant offered admission to: 9 black students; 24 Latino students;
177 white students; and 620 students who identify as Asian.
| |
Qty |
% Admit |
% Population NYC |
| Black |
9 |
1% |
26.6% |
| Latino |
24 |
3% |
27% |
| White |
177 |
22% |
44.7% |
| Asian |
620 |
77% |
13% |
| Native
American |
0 |
0% |
|
| |
830 |
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Bronx Science offered admission to:
25 black students - 3%
54 Latino
students - 7%
239 white students - 30%
489 Asian students - 60%
3 American
Indian/Alaskan Native students
| |
Qty |
% Admit |
% Population NYC |
| Black |
25 |
3% |
26.6% |
| Latino |
54 |
7% |
27% |
| White |
239 |
30% |
44.7% |
| Asian |
489 |
60% |
13% |
| Native
American |
3 |
0% |
|
| Total |
810 |
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Brooklyn Tech offered admission to: 110 black students; 134 Latino
students; 451 white students; 960 Asian students; and 5 American
Indian/Alaskan Native students.
| |
Qty |
% Admit |
% Population NYC |
| Black |
110 |
14% |
26.60% |
| Latino |
134 |
17% |
27% |
| White |
239 |
30% |
44.70% |
| Asian |
489 |
60% |
13% |
| Native
American |
5 |
1% |
|
| |
977 |
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Admissions Test For Elite Schools Prompts Complaint - SchoolBook
Most Eighth Graders Matched to a High School of Their Choice - SchoolBook
And my posts:
Chinese Moving to East Harlem
Labels: Best Schools, Racism
Attack on US Politician's ethnic Chinese Wife
Is the Ivy League Fair to Asian Americans?
My answer would be no, but it depends on your definition of fair!
The challenge with admissions is the process is very subjective, and it depends on what you measure in the application. If you measure just grades and test scores, yes, Asians (translation Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, and Koreans) are discriminated against. But if you use life experiences, it's very subjective and from what I can see, the results are uneven.
Is the Ivy League Fair to Asian Americans? - The AtlanticLabels: college admissions, Racism
College Admissions & Claiming Asian
I feel the current system is often tilted against Asian's for college admissions. And yes, even 2 years later, my daughter's college acceptances are still a sore point with me. It felt like more of a lottery.
One writer I read wrote about college admissions in California, and in counting the amount of minorities in CA they counted Asians, yet the same author ignored them when counting the amount of minorities admitted to colleges.
I'm Not Asian- Jesse Washington Associated Press National Writer, Race and Ethnicity
Asian-American students perceive bias in university admissions and counselors want clarification | Inside Higher Labels: college admissions, Racism
Soldier Booted from Army for Death of Pvt. Danny Chen
New wave of immigrants — a new target too?
Asian-Americans, Affirmative Action, and Fisher v. Texas
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