Word: segregationism
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Are minority groups self-segregating? Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. Albert Hsia, in his March 9 editorial, criticized the Asian American Association (AAA) and other minority organizations for what he believed was their tendency toward self-segregation. But in backing up his opinion with outright falsehoods...
As a minority and a member of the Executive Board of the Black Students Association (BSA), I took great offense to the article by Albert Hsia on what he perceived to be the self-segregation of minority groups.
WITHOUT question, a scholar could write volumes exposing what some may euphemistically label "racially insensitive," or realists may more appropriately characterize as racist accusations and generalizations leveled against minority student organizations in Albert Hsia's editorial of March 9, 1989, "Minority Group Self-Segregation." The points that could be made...
A recent editorial in The Crimson criticized minorities and the minority student groups here at Harvard for what the writer suggested is a trend towards self-segregation. The Harvard minority student organizations segregate themselves by being exclusive in their activities, which, by the way, the writer tells us, have become...
The editorial's author also makes an artificial distinction between cultural and social activities, declaring that cultural activities are legitimate while social activities are illegitimate functions for minority organizations. In reality, culture is a result of shared experience, and social interaction is often a reflection of cultural norms. Cultural activities...