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What ratio of the races can be said to be diverse? At a minimum, wouldn't one need to know the racial breakdown of the applicant pool before being able to concl
by jaredklewis 8y ago
What ratio of the races can be said to be diverse? At a minimum, wouldn't one need to know the racial breakdown of the applicant pool before being able to conclude that Stuyvesant is not racially diverse?
I also don't understand why a three person class with one ethnically Chinese person, one ethnically Arab person, and one ethnically Indian person would be considered to have no racial diversity at all. Why is "Asian" one big race, but (for example) Caucasian and Hispanic two different races? It just seems so arbitrary.
Do you have an opinion on Stuyvesant's admission policy? Your comment seems rather pointed but stops short of condemning it.
- caprese 8y agoYes race is arbitrary but it is easy to catch on to what a society is referring to. Its the lack of black people that people worry about with regard to Stuyvesant. There is a lot of literature on how this comes to be. Fawn over “Pure meritocracy” if you like, the outcome in NYC wasnt expected and isnt leveraging the potential of its society.
- shaklee3 8y agoI don't know the answer, so I was just pointing that out since the word diversity rarely comes with with economics. However, I think that since OP pointed out it's a meritocracy you get kids whose parents really care, and not poor kids whose parents are working all the time. That tends to be cultural to some extent.