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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by scruple on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:38PM (#24151210)
It's not that Vietnamese is the "right kind" of Asian. It's that Chinese-Americans dominate the landscape compared to Vietnamese-Americans. So here you have a Vietnamese-American who has excelled (just ever so slightly, in his case) beyond his immediate Chinese-American peers, which made him a standout in that regard.
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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by usaar333 on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:57AM (#24154662)
True, but Vietnamese Americans are well represented in undergrad at least. In fact about double the white representation in UCs (https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/disaggrega...)
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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by scruple on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:01AM (#24158054)
What's the representation at Yale, I wonder. Without checking I just assume that (from living in SoCal for a long time) California has most of the country's Vietnamese-Americans.
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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by reaperducer on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:44AM (#24159391)
I just assume that (from living in SoCal for a long time) California has most of the country's Vietnamese-Americans

There's a very large Vietnamese population in Houston. Probably other cities.

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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by scruple on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:02PM (#24159657)
I'm finally off my phone, so I had a look. There's a Wikipedia on it here [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large...

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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by sizzle on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:54PM (#24160256)
By that logic, what about Taiwanese?
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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by scruple on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:55PM (#24161026)
Well that's complicated. I believe that it's been made deliberately confusing (the geopolitical issues between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China are at least known to exist today) and it's pretty hard to talk about. I wanna tap out of this conversation before I even say anything about it because I feel like it's way over my head.

But, in the very specific context of what I was saying regarding university admissions in 2017, I don't think there was a lot that a Taiwanese-American person could do to distinguish themselves from being labeled or otherwise considered Chinese-American.

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