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Good. I'd be sickened to hear I got a lucrative opportunity because of the colour of my skin (which incidentally is not white and I'm not oriental so I'd guess
by psychphysic 3y ago
Good. I'd be sickened to hear I got a lucrative opportunity because of the colour of my skin (which incidentally is not white and I'm not oriental so I'd guess I'd have benefitted from affirmative action if it was present where I grew up).
- xyzelement 3y agoIf you read some of the comments here, you'd see that colleges have been discriminating against Asians. As a group asian Americans have had no trouble being over represented in colleges based on purely merit.
- psychphysic 3y agoI think there is likely differences in how we use phrases like Asian and oriental. Basically as far as I know AA was intended to give places to people like me. But I would not have accepted if I had any idea I was not admitted on achievement alone.
- dahwolf 3y agoWhich weakens the systemic racism thesis, hence we don't talk about it.