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Trump’s Stance on Affirmative Action is Dividing Asian Americans:
an article by the L.A. Times, Joe Zhou, father of a son who was rejected
from Harvard despite his “near-perfect ACT and SAT scores, a 4.44 grade-
point average, being named class valedictorian, and a resume that included
teaching English in China and serving as captain of the varsity tennis team
”, was elated by the Trump administration’s position. “Maybe now people
will finally pay attention to something we Asian Americans have been talking
about for so long,” he said of the news.
Asian-Americans like Zhou believe that Affirmative Action in this specific
regard has done more harm than good for their demographic; if admittance is
based on filling quotas and not on merit, they feel their chances of being
accepted decrease, their deserved slots going to less-qualified people of
other racial groups (Whites included).
However, not all Asian-Americans agree with this stance; a recent poll found
that only 25% of Asian-Americans are opposed to Affirmative Action, with
support for it being the lowest among Chinese-Americans at 41%.
Many Asian-Americans who support Affirmative Action feel that focusing on
just the university admittance aspect is dangerous and that ditching the
policy altogether will have negative consequences for life after college.
The Department of Justice has cited Zhou’s lawsuit against Harvard and
similar lawsuits filed by over 64 different Asian groups as the reason
behind their investigation. However, the lawsuits allege first-hand accounts
of discriminatory admittance practices against Asian-Americans, with little
-to-no references to discriminatory practices against Whites. Despite this,
the concern for “race-based discrimination” in this context has some
worried that the administration will focus on the plight of the White
students and only on the Asian-American students when it benefits their
Caucasian counterparts.
Forde-Mazrui agrees. “Such leaders’ purported concern for discrimination
against Asian Americans is politically opportunistic.” | n********d
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