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Why are you so quick to blame "backwards attitudes" when this behaviour is simply to meant to compensate for discrimination against Asians in college admissions

Why are you so quick to blame "backwards attitudes" when this behaviour is simply to meant to compensate for discrimination against Asians in college admissions? (https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-many-sins-of-college-admissions https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-many-sins-...) Asians with far better scores are deemed to be less worthy due to "uninteresting personalities" than others far less qualified. I don't think it's difficult to understand why the children of people motivated enough to emigrate for better opportunities would themselves be ambitious and would want to establish themselves with stable, high performing careers (having almost no generational wealth to fall back on.)

gautamcgoel 6y ago
I think it's backwards to believe that the measure of your life is how prestigious a college you went to, or how much money you make, especially if these goals lead you to cheat and lie to advance.
- rtx 6y ago
  How is that any different than what Facebook and Google do. Or infact many of the American companies. Will you call stealing people data American? Or profitng by bombing poor nations. Is being war criminal an American culture?
- zabardasth 6y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--KU79Y0DQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--KU79Y0DQ
- bollu 6y ago
  > measure of your life is how prestigious a college you went to In my experience, the prestige of a college definitely correlates with how rewarding your time at college is going to be.
- mav3rick 6y ago
  You had a shitty circle of friends and are now projecting. I know many Indian-Americans who are hard working, creative and NEVER cheated. One doesn't need "Americanized" parents to be a decent person.
dudul 6y ago
So the solution to being rejected due to high grades and uninteresting personality is to study more, cheat for higher grades and spend less time developing an interesting, genuine personality? Also, if scores were the only reason to enroll a student, people from poor background, especially black and Latinos would basically never get in.
Aeolun 6y ago
I dunno, I have no generational wealth to fall back on, but that has never really motivated my interest in a high performing career. Of course, the career I chose just happened to be programming, so it did end up that way.

gautamcgoel 6y ago

I think it's backwards to believe that the measure of your life is how prestigious a college you went to, or how much money you make, especially if these goals lead you to cheat and lie to advance.

rtx 6y ago
How is that any different than what Facebook and Google do. Or infact many of the American companies. Will you call stealing people data American? Or profitng by bombing poor nations. Is being war criminal an American culture?
zabardasth 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--KU79Y0DQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--KU79Y0DQ
bollu 6y ago
> measure of your life is how prestigious a college you went to In my experience, the prestige of a college definitely correlates with how rewarding your time at college is going to be.
mav3rick 6y ago
You had a shitty circle of friends and are now projecting. I know many Indian-Americans who are hard working, creative and NEVER cheated. One doesn't need "Americanized" parents to be a decent person.

dudul 6y ago

So the solution to being rejected due to high grades and uninteresting personality is to study more, cheat for higher grades and spend less time developing an interesting, genuine personality? Also, if scores were the only reason to enroll a student, people from poor background, especially black and Latinos would basically never get in.

Aeolun 6y ago

I dunno, I have no generational wealth to fall back on, but that has never really motivated my interest in a high performing career. Of course, the career I chose just happened to be programming, so it did end up that way.