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...explained by the fact that Asians have been traditionally denied the right to participate rigorously in their government as a result of a caste-centered history, and this culture persists today. Eastern philosophy, which stresses obedience to authority and family ties over individuality, is yet another explanation for Asians?? political timidity...
...look to her hair or eye color as a distinguishing feature. Rather, I’ll instinctively note other physical features, like eye shape or the texture of her hair. These visual markers could easily escape someone who has grown up in an environment with few or no South Asians??someone who has never before had to look beyond hair color or general skin tone as a defining visual feature. Errors of identification usually spring from thus approaching all ethnicities with the same observational focus, from race blindness...
...Asian Americans, up from 16.4% for the class of 2000. This is not the first time top schools have come under scrutiny for their admissions policies regarding Asian Americans. In 1990, the federal government investigated Harvard for discriminating against Asian applicants. The investigation found that lower admission rates for Asians??despite somewhat stronger academic credentials—could be attributed to legacy and athlete preferences, which primarily benefited white applicants. Yi Chen ’09, co-president of the Asian American Association, said that she didn’t think too much about her ethnicity when applying...
High school, according to “Mean Girls”’s resident “outsider” Janis Ian, is complicated. It takes an expert to navigate the dangerous terrain of the high school cafeteria, where everyone from the “Nerdy Asians?? to the “Unfriendly Black Hotties” is neatly divided into categories. Unspoken divisions reign supreme. While this may be an accurate portrayal of the high school social scene, Harvard students like to think they have progressed past this type of self-segregation. But in reality...
...names of groups like AAA. When people use the word Asian, much of the time they mean East Asian, and usually specifically Chinese. East Asians, meaning those with Chinese, North and South Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese ancestry, make up a majority of the Asians at Harvard. Often, Southeast Asians??the region variably composed of India, Vietnam, Thailand, and several other countries—are lumped in with East Asians on ethnic surveys. In the smaller-scale world of college admissions, the Common Application, used by over 300 colleges, splits applicants of Asian heritage not into categories of East...