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Re: Asian-American admissions at Harvard

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why does america systematically discriminate minorities? ex. media emasculates/villifies minority men while fetishizing minority women.

Don’t lump minorities together under that single banner, it’s gross and shows ignorance. The situation you’re talking about applies almost purely to Asian (south/east) Americans. It’s the complete reverse in regards to black folks, and nonexistent in Hispanic Americans (look up intermarriage statistics).

how is it ignorant to suggest amerikkka has a racist past and it's still being pushed today as you've described casually.

So blacks and hispanics are not villified at all in your view? being grouped into economic apartheid that is repeatedly paraded on media as thugs, gangbangers and of low intellectual capacity?

For example, it is generally accepted in mainstream american culture that making fun of blacks, as a result of slavery, is very taboo but other minorities tend to get a pass. I've encountered this many times in the so called "liberal and mutlicultural society" powerhouse of the West. You are either Black or White in America I've been told. People in between don't matter.

Re: Asian-American admissions at Harvard

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post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t lump minorities together under that single banner, it’s gross and shows ignorance. The situation you’re talking about applies almost purely to Asian (south/east) Americans. It’s the complete reverse in regards to black folks, and nonexistent in Hispanic Americans (look up intermarriage statistics).

how is it ignorant to suggest amerikkka has a racist past and it's still being pushed today as you've described casually. So blacks and hispanics are not villified at all in your view? being grouped into economic apartheid that is repeatedly paraded on media as thugs, gangbangers and of low intellectual capacity? For example, it is generally accepted in mainstream american culture that making fun of blacks, as a resu…

I’m addressing:

media emasculates/villifies minority men while fetishizing minority women.

Black men face issues of fetishization and hyper masculine caricatures, while black women are villified and systemically unwanted by other races, intermarrying at lower rates of any other group save Asian men. It is quite literally the opposite of what you’ve stated.

Hispanic men and women don’t have any significant differences in intermarriage, and at that have the highest rates of intermarriage (because >50% are white probably).

I do hope you’ll note the absurdity of preaching Amerikkka while lacking a basic understanding of the racial dynamics within it. It’s reminiscent of JS only devs decrying strong typing, and carries about as much weight!

Re: Asian-American admissions at Harvard

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don’t use any standardized testing in Canada and I don’t think it’s affected our higher education system at all. Are there any proven advantages to standardized testing?

That's true for getting into undergraduate programs, but when it comes to graduate programs, dentistry, medical, law schools etc, I believe we still do use the same standardized tests as in the USA.

I went to grad school in Canada and I didn't have to do any standardized testing.

People recommended doing your GRE but it wasn't required.

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