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Re: Asian Americans and Affirmative Action (Score: 1)
by diminix on Monday, August 22 @ 17:10:20 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | I see someone hasn't read any of the major texts on Asian American history. The reason you haven't heard about the discrimination against Asians is history is written in black and white. Minority issues are written from a highly Afro-centric view where other the thought that other minorities could suffer is incomprehensible.
By Helen Zia, Asian American Dreams, page 25:
"Our Asian American migration begins with the Anglo-American moral dilemma over slavery. In 1806, one year before Britain officially ended the salve trade, two hundred Chinese were brought to Trinidad, a small offering to assuage the insatiable demand for plantation labor in the New World. Using the same ships that brought slaves from Africa, the flesh merchants rerouted to Asia. They indentured "coolie" labor from China and India to perform the same work, under the same conditions, as slaves; in the case of Cuba, which continued the practice of slavery until the end of the nineteenth century, the Asian coolies worked alongside African slaves."
If you're interested, I can provide bibliographical information on sources detailing discrimination against Asians in employment, housing, or anything. For some reason, no one knows that Asians were considered "colored" and sat in the colored sections of movie theaters, lived in the red light districts alongside blacks, and went to segregated schools.
Granted, blacks have suffered a huge amount and many are still suffering today. But it's divisive to imply that no other minority group can suffer. If you prick us, do we not bleed?
The point on the Caribbean immigrants was that affirmative action does not rectify past wrongs by giving a boost to the families of former slaves.
There was also a study by the University of Washington that said the children of Caribbean immigrants had academic statistics that resembled Asians. You can read it here: http://depts.washington.edu/~uweek/archives/2002.02.FEB_07/news_e.html
This study implies that the main reason groups do not succeed is because of weak family structures, not discrimination. Unfortunately, many blacks come from broken homes. This is why I think they cannot perform well on tests.
I'm not sure what you could do to help this though. I don't know what the government can do to prevent teen pregnancies and divorces. This responsibility falls to the individual. |
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