My high school limited any one ethnic group to 45%. This was San Francisco, CA and went on till at least the 90s. Different ethnic groups had different scores to get in. The school district later was sued and the rule is no longer in place.
Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)
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Re: Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)
#132funny, jews are now very over represented in elite US universities (adjusting for academic achievement). there was a fairly recent ron unz article on this subject
and of course azns are strongly discriminated against in a way that is entirely analogous to the historic jewish quotas, but people can only respond by lamely bleating about "diversity"
Re: Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)
#133Thanks for posting. I just sent this to my parents who were also in the Soviet Union until we all emigrated to the US. Here's the response from my mom: Yes, it's typical. The only thing which surprises me that the dad's dad insisted on military in 1970 - there was an antisemitic campaign in military in 1961 and grandfather could not miss it. Usually families knew which colleges accept Jewish kids, which did not and u…
I haven't yet shown this to my mom (native russian, emigrated in early 1980s) But she told me that she basically had to blackmail the head doctors of the Moscow Medical School to get accepted because they officially were not allowed to accept any Jews, though about 10-15% of the school was still some how Jewish. She also had trouble because she applied for a visa to Israel before she finished Med School and was of co…
Yea - there's a good documentary called "Refuseniks" that covers this in more detail.
An interesting story from there is that as so many educated Jews were fired from their jobs they started filling in other positions. Someone tells a story of applying to be an elevator operator and being asked if she had a PhD.
Re: Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know that answer is not in this forum. However I expect someone may be heard of a good book to explain this. A book based on research an anthropological study but not on sentimental history of the problem. (By the way somebody down voted my question. Isn't this a legitimate question?)
I almost downvoted you because you said "Or Jewish people are just more outspoken?" which sounds a bit like "Or are they asking for it?" but I decided it was probably just a communication problem. There are lots of books on this topic. "Why the Jews" is supposed to be good. There's also "Antisemitism Explained" by Dr. Steven Baum, my former psychiatrist, which I would expect to take a deep psychological analysis (but…
The book "Why the Jew" seems to address the issue more universal than the other. I'll read the this one.
No, I did not intended to say "Or are they asking for it?". However I do not care if people down vote my comments.
Thanks.
Re: Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
I almost downvoted you because you said "Or Jewish people are just more outspoken?" which sounds a bit like "Or are they asking for it?" but I decided it was probably just a communication problem. There are lots of books on this topic. "Why the Jews" is supposed to be good. There's also "Antisemitism Explained" by Dr. Steven Baum, my former psychiatrist, which I would expect to take a deep psychological analysis (but…
The book "Why the Jew" seems to address the issue more universal than the other. I'll read the this one. No, I did not intended to say "Or are they asking for it?". However I do not care if people down vote my comments. Thanks.
If you didn't care you wouldn't have brought it up. :)