The Uncomfortable Truth About Affirmative Action and Asian-Americans
12th August 2017
The application process for schools, fellowships, and jobs always came with a ritual: a person who had a role in choosing me—an admissions officer, an interviewer—would mention in his congratulations that I was “different” from the other Asians. When I won a scholarship that paid for part of my education, a selection panelist told me that I got it because I had moving qualities of heart and originality that Asian applicants generally lacked. Asian applicants were all so alike, and I stood out. In truth, I wasn’t much different from other Asians I knew. I was shy and reticent, played a musical instrument, spent summers drilling math, and had strict parents to whom I was dutiful. But I got the message: to be allowed through a narrow door, an Asian should cultivate not just a sense of individuality but also ways to project “Not like other Asians!”
For Fashionable Victim purposes, Asians have Honorary Whiteness.
August 12th, 2017 at 14:01
We all know that Asians are mere automata churned out by the factories in Taiwan and Singapore.
Nothing to see here, citizens. Move along.