How is it that Asian Americans don't need affirmative action to get by in life?
It was particularly disturbing, Mr. Jia said, when classmates with lower scores than his — but who were not Asian-American, like him — were admitted to those Ivy League institutions.
“My gut reaction was that I was super disillusioned by how the whole system was set up,” Mr. Jia, 19, said.
Students like Mr. Jia are now the subject of a lawsuit accusing Harvard of discriminating against Asian-Americans in admissions by imposing a penalty for their high achievement and giving preferences to other racial minorities.
Asian magic
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The unicorns helped them
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Self reliance, enterprise, innovation and hard work seem to be congenital characteristics of most Asians. People with these personal attributes will invariably prosper in the type of free/private economy which exists in the United States and indeed most western democracies. The whingers and hangers on will spend most of their lifetime trying to drag themselves up from the gutter. Usually unsuccessfully and blaming everyone but themselves for their self imposed plight. Side: Asian magic
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Culture and Race are not the same thing, though people like to lump them together. Because they are often lumped together, being critical of a culture is often seen as racist. It's not. Asian cultures often produce in its people values that are conducive to individual, thus aggregate success. There are a variety of American sub-cultures that do not produce values conducive to individual success. They often have the government support necessary to maintain the values of an unsuccessful culture over the long run. Side: The unicorns helped them
Add to that the fact that the safety net can ensnare those who find themselves in it and you have a system that not only maintains, but produces bad culture. It produces the perverse incentives of subsidized poverty and all the misery that goes with Side: The unicorns helped them
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