Wednesday, August 17, 2011

What about Asians?

Lately I have been reading up questions on yahoo and some other articles on the internet. What I realized is that people often tend to stereotype all asians as rich "Einsteins" that go to school with mainly white people. But what about the Asians who live in low income areas? What about Asians that do poorly in school? What about the children of Asian immigrants? I always hear articles saying that Blacks and Hispanics do bad in school because they don't have the same quality of education. I read a ques. asking how come a wealthy Black person would be able to get affirmative action, and a low income White/Asian person wouldn't. And I know that in some cases Asians do qualify, but think about it, affirmative action is mainly targeted for Hispanics. Asians don't usually qualify because they do better in school. But have you ever thought that a lot of Asians do better in school because they know that being Asian can be a big disadvantage at times. Being Asian means that you need a ->

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