In this day and age, I see no reason at all for universities to just allow students in based on their academic achievement instead of trying to meet some quotas. They'd probably have less drop out rates and a more stimulating learning environment. In college it sucked being in the same class room as Joe Schmoe who only averaged a 2.0 in high school and is smoking and drinking his brain cells to death, and then having him try to participate in a discussion and bringing nothing valid to the table; but you know he's there because he's black/hispanic/asian/non-trad, whatever. We had a non-trad my last two years of college in the theatre department that essentially terrorized the staff and was the bane of all the students because working with him was worse than taking a rusty spoon and gouging out your eyes. But he was there to meet a quota and we couldn't argue with that.
Let people prove themselves for what they're really worth instead of being judged by their ethnicity.
UC's Lower Asian Admissions: What do you think about this?
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The UC's are taking a new admissions process that will lower then number of Asians admitted. The University of California system is going reduce the number Asians admitted in hopes of more Whites being admitted. Asians make up about 40% of all undergraduates at UC's. Some are calling it "affirmative action for whites" and it really kind of is. Asians only make up 12% of California's population, but it makes up an average of 50% of students at UC's.
What do you think about all of this?
What do you think about all of this?
They didn't pi** and moan about how the WASPS were "keeping 'em down" or discriminating against them - heck, EVERY ethnic group hated every OTHER ethnic group (hence the epithets: heimie, n**ger, kike, spik, wop, kraut, polack, etc, ad nauseum). But they got along because they had to - because, in order to assimilate and become an American, they ALL had to keep their noses clean.
There was no such thing as "cultural diversity" - if you wanted to honor your native culture, you did it at home, with your family; you didn't try to cram it down everyone else's throat. AND, again, EVERYONE learned ENGLISH!!!
"Affirmative Action" came out of the 60s when a bunch of brain-dead mental-midgets decided that, if they couldn't get ahead on their talents and brains, they would play the "minority" or the "race" card, NOT because they'd worked extra hard and EARNED the right to an expensive college education, but because they had NOT!
If they want true "diversity," give a break to poor kids. Green is the only color that matters, in terms of opportunity.
You have to understand that for many years, to paraphrase your sentence, "White kids" had to settle for their 2nd choice school because of their ethnicity. At that time it would have worked in your favor but students of other ethnic backgrounds began to find unwelcoming attitudes at the disproportionately Asian UC campuses so White top applicants stopped choosing them. UCs are trying to right the imbalance. Correct or not, social engineering makes some sense, but it is hard on the over-served population of the moment!
But... I don't think social engineering is *ever* a good idea. The marketplace will force colleges to be more open, because they'll need more than Euro-American money to survive.
The only color that matters is green. :)
However, I felt AZNangel715's remarks had a distinctly racist quality to them, whether she meant it or not. I know some pretty smart Euro-Americans and some lazy Asian-Americans AND vice-versa! Everyone should just dump all the Ethnocentric thinking and naming which leads to prejudice. Everyone came here to be, uhm, US-Americans?
Let people prove themselves for what they're really worth instead of being judged by their ethnicity.