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"good culture" == "not Asian American culture" apparently? I think this is exactly the thing that the authors skate right past. "Parental fears of academic com
by abeppu 3y ago
"good culture" == "not Asian American culture" apparently?
I think this is exactly the thing that the authors skate right past. "Parental fears of academic competition" is assumed to be fully disjoint with "racial animus". What if "fears of ... competition" is just one way to racial animus without expressing explicitly negative attitudes on surveys?
And yes, this is a swipe at both the parent and the paper authors for not seriously considering this. The authors have literally a 2-sentence paragraph on animus and later claim to have ruled it out. And literally, you cannot take surveys at face value for something like this. People will not and sometimes cannot be honest.
- happytoexplain 3y ago> "good culture" == "not Asian American culture" Again in just a few replies: What I can honestly only interpret as a bad-faith hyper-reduction. I understand that people tend to jump to accusations of racism with just as much unreasonableness as the people actually being racist, but I'd love a better effort to keep that away from here in particular.
- SamReidHughes 3y agoI can't read minds but "racial animus" would certainly be a strange conclusion to jump to with the people I was talking to.