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Since Asians on average are both wealthier and earn more than average Caucasian families isn’t using the term “White flight” a bit incorrect due to its connotat
by tsunamifury 3y ago
Since Asians on average are both wealthier and earn more than average Caucasian families isn’t using the term
“White flight” a bit incorrect due to its connotations?
Wouldn’t the better term be “Asian gentrification of lower income white communities?”
I’m half joking here and half serious. In reality I see what the paper is saying and I tend to agree. It’s hard to say there is a “white” culture but at the upper end the is a shared sort of blue blood set of values that this paper addresses. Those values strongly lean into diverse and well rounded child rearing and wholistic development. The likely hood that Asian families create academic focused game theory problems by beating out students who focus on more wholistic education feels believable. However ultimately those values i think disappear by the second generation.
On the whole I think this paper is trying to point out that white upper class culture finds Asian cultural definitions of success mildly offensive, and to protect their ways move out.
I’m the product of white and Chinese heritage and this feels true to me.
- Dig1t 3y agoIf it were any other pair of races, yes. However if it involves white people, the whites must always be cast as the evil ones.
- hsjqllzlfkf 3y agoYou have been radicalized, please get help.
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- abeppu 3y agoNo, if they've done their data analysis right (and I dunno...) they're saying it's actually _flight_ b/c whites leave faster than Asians arrive, and apparently they confirm by getting this number by more than one route. They hammer on this in multiple sections: "our estimate of white flight from Asian entry in high-SES districts is larger, with each new Asian student leading to 1.5 white student departures" "Overall, we find a 1.5-to-one departure rate for the average suburban district, which is above the one-for-one threshold that would pertain to a pure housing market response." "In this case, we use Census data from 2000 and 2010 and find that each Asian arrival in a district leads to the departure of -1.5 white households with children, a number very similar to our baseline estimate."
- meowtimemania 3y agoSo are there tons of vacant houses? I’m guessing they aren’t including other races that are also moving in
- abeppu 3y agoBut also when one family with school aged kids moves out, some proportion of the time, the buyers don't have kids. The houses don't have to be vacant for their stated number to hold. I didn't look closely but their data did consider other racial groups.
- goodbyesf 3y ago> Since Asians on average are both wealthier and earn more than average Caucasian families That's superficially true because most asians are concentrated in high cost of living areas and major cities while the white population is distributed all over the country ( both high cost and low cost areas ). If you take an asian nurse in LA ( 100K) and compare her salaray against the average of a white nurse in LA (100K) and a white nurse in rural missouri (50K), of course the 100K asian > 75K white average. But that's a bit misleading because the white nurse in LA earns as much as the asian nurse in LA. Granted asians are concentrated in these areas due to the long history of racism against asians in america, but stats are stats. > isn’t using the term “White flight” a bit incorrect due to its connotations? Only if you believe white flight is income based rather than race based. Pretty sure it is race based. I don't think people were vetting their minority neighbors' income and work history before deciding to flee for whiter pastures. > I’m the product of white and Chinese heritage and this feels true to me. My condolences.
- tsunamifury 3y ago"My condolences." Excuse me? Also I see you failed to read the comment.
- goodbyesf 3y agoI must have misread it. I could have sworn that you wrote you experienced white flight due to your chinese heritage.