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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by seibelj on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:49AM (#23539757)
You are probably being facetious, but my wife is Vietnamese and her parents were boat people who fled the communists, didn't speak any English and had no money, then her dad got a job washing dishes, learned English at night, got into college, then got into medical school, started a chain of clinics, and retired a millionaire. You would not believe how much they despise current "progressive" politics and speaking with them about politics is basically impossible. They and their community / family follow what is happening with things like Harvard and partially as a result they are die-hard Trump supporters (among other things like their belief in religion, police, etc.).

I do not agree with all of these opinions, I am just telling you how this community, which is mostly still poor and not "model minority", views a lot of what is coming out of elite institutions in the name of progress and equality.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by malandrew on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:08AM (#23540015)
Great comment. What's not appreciated is that Asians in the US have the greatest Gini coefficient of any racial group in the US: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/07/12/income-inequality...

John McWhorter made a comment in a Reason interview that affirmative action really should be about socioeconomic status and not race. Back in the day race would have been a highly correlative proxy for income and wealth, but that it is becoming increasingly less predictive and advantaging middle and upper class minorities when today they almost no meaningful disadvantages relative to their white and asian peers of the same socioeconomic class.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:02PM (#23540745)
See what happens when East Asians from a poor background try to take advantage of affirmative action programs.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by pnw_hazor on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:42AM (#23540482)
The Vietnamese side of my family are refugees too, two MDs, 2 engineers, and one CS professor. Not bad for growing up in public housing and on food stamps.

They see Communism rising in America and support Trump.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by cousin_it on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:10PM (#23544905)
Many Russian/Jewish emigrants (including me) feel similarly. To anyone who grew up under communism, the current thought climate is alarming. It's hard to explain to Western folks.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by travisoneill1 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:02AM (#23539936)
Why wouldn't they feel that way? As bad as Trump may be, he isn't trying to keep their kids from following the same successful path.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by user982 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:17AM (#23540140)
The same successful path that begins with the US welcoming non-white, non-English-speaking refugees from countries they've bombed? Trump is not actively on the record against all of that?
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by magicsmoke on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:23AM (#23540215)
If they're refugees from South Vietnam, they probably wish the US kept bombing so they didn't have to flee the communists.

Hell, if they were well off in South Vietnam before the communists came, it just goes to show that if your family had the mental foundations necessary for success, even if you hit rock bottom you still have the attitude to climb back up.

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