Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playing while behind them, green rice paddies stretch to distant mountains illuminated by a splash of sunshine off the gilded dome of a Buddhist temple. It is hard to imagine how this scene could be the latest weapon of a despotic military regime which continues to rule the Southeast Asian nation of Burma. But the scene is as dangerous as it is irresistible...
...down 7%. "We expected a significant increase in minority numbers, and that did not happen," concedes Al Kauffman, a senior lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, who helped draft the law. A notable exception: at UT Austin the chief beneficiaries of the new law seem to be Asian students, whose admissions under the 10% Plan rose a whopping 16% in the past two years...
...admission scheme allows admissions officers to give more favorable consideration to applicants from poorer households. But for African-American and Latino applicants, that was not as helpful to them as considering race was under the old system. One reason is that among less affluent students who applied to Berkeley, Asian Americans were represented much more heavily than blacks or Hispanics...
What happened? Contrary to the avalanche of media stories, non-Asian minority students are not being shut out of the University of California. They are, instead and finally, being assigned to campuses that better fit their level of academic preparation...
True, there was a significant drop in non-Asian minority admissions to the two most competitive UC schools. But there was a countervailing increase in such admissions at the less competitive schools. At UC Riverside, for example, there was a 34% increase in black admissions and a 43% increase in Hispanic admissions...