Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Choi said affirmative action creates unfair, unequal standards at the expense of white and Asian-Americans, particularly in college admissions...
Last Saturday, there was a conference on ethnic studies at Harvard. It was attended by professors of Latin American, Asian American, African American and Native American Studies from universities in California and other states...
...histories of every ethnic group, the bad parts always stand out. As a result, the history of ethnic groups in the United States is almost entirely bad. Whether it is the slavery and segregation of African-Americans, the virtual genocide of Native Americans or the racial prejudice against Asian Americans in California in the 19th century, people are almost always tempted to look at what went wrong instead of what went right. And by looking at what went wrong, ethnic groups often become very emotional about their own history, en route to letting their history become their identity. History...
...problems with present affirmative action policy. Social stigma has divided women/minority groups by those who accept their membership in a community fighting discrimination and those that are pressured by social stigma to reject associations with their respective minority status. There's a difference between an affluent black. Hispanic, or Asian student choosing not to apply for a minority scholarship and making sure female/minority applicants are considered fairly for positions they apply for. The former is a playing field of real choice, the Latter is one dictated by forces not so fair nor easily controlled. Getting to the point where minority...
Presidents from the following organizations have endorsed the petition: Harvard African Students Association, Asian American Association, Black Students Association, Caribbean Club, Chinese Student Association, Cubans-American undergraduate Student Association, Fuerza Quisqueyans, Haitian Alliance, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, Hong Kong Club, Irish Cultural and Historical Society, Korean-Americans for Culture and Community, Korean Student Association, Harvard Phillipine Forum, RAZA, Singapore and Malaysia Association, South Asian Association and the Taiwanese Cultural Society...