Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asian-Americans have been caught in the middle of a new national battle over scaling back affirmative action programs...
...Certainly this is an incredibly different place," Hoyte says. "I'm an African-American, and there were quite a small number of us, and to my sense visually, there were very, very few Asian-Americans. So we can see tremendous progress...
Despite this progress, Hoyte says, there has been no retrenchment in the University's efforts to attract and welcome Asian-American students...
...There is no question that we have been more successful in seeing that Asian-Americans participate than with some other groups," he says. "But that doesn't mean there's a feeling that we don't need to have our eye on the ball...
...There's definitely a division in the Asian-American community," says Quach, who opposed Prop. 209. "In San Francisco, in a good amount of the Asian-American community, people do believe that a merit-based system is more worthwhile. The 40 percent who voted for Proposition 209 want to see things decided on merit...