How Japanese Americans Built a ‘Useful American Life’ in 1940s Chicago

Re:How Japanese Americans Built a ‘Useful American Life’ in ... by Hitton on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:55AM (#23538073)

It's funny to call it naive approach when it works perfectly well in many European countries. The so called "modern" approach doesn't even favour disadvantaged students, it simply favours children of well-off favoured minorities parents. And in addition it creates animosity because of favouritism and makes other students think that the students from group with lower entrance requirements are less capable even if those particular students would be able to enter on their own merits.

If there is any discrimination in primary/secondary education, it should be fixed instead of trying to engineer society by introducing "good" racism (which actually hurts Asian minorities).

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Re:How Japanese Americans Built a ‘Useful American Life’ in ... by enaaem on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:15AM (#23539377)

I’m an Asian living living in northern Europe. I never have to mention my race on any kind of form. A lot of things in the US baffles me.

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Re:How Japanese Americans Built a ‘Useful American Life’ in ... by mschuster91 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:02AM (#23539233)

>It's funny to call it naive approach when it works perfectly well in many European countries.

That's mostly because our universities are publicly funded and require no or extremely low tuition, meaning the only money young adults need for academic education is for their living costs (rent, food, internet, beer). This lowers the barrier of entry - and it also gives those students a chance to try who are not sure they can pull through because they do not need to be afraid of losing years of their lives AND have a six figures debt mountain.

> And in addition it creates animosity because of favouritism

Scholarships to cover living costs are quite common here (Germany) for gifted students and they don't cause much animosity, although there has been a growing debate over racial and financial inequality (i.e. that most people applying and getting them don't really need them due to their family's background).

> If there is any discrimination in primary/secondary education, it should be fixed instead of trying to engineer society by introducing "good" racism (which actually hurts Asian minorities).

As said below, discrimination exists in the university system as well. As for affirmative action hurting other minorities... the system can and should be tuned there.

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