<p>Do any of you out there know which colleges have the most friendly atmosphere toward Asians, particularly Taiwanese/Chinese Americans? And I'm talking about the top 30 universities in the USA. Any of my Asian brothas/sistas out there have any experience already at their colleges that they might want to share? I already know that UCs are probably pretty friendly toward Asians because there are so many Asians in California, but I'm not looking into any UCs (because they are public state schools and I am from out of state).</p>
<p>University of Washington ... but it's not on the top 30 8^)</p>
<p>I'm already applying to good ol' UW honors and I hope I get accepted. Any other schools you know of? Or are all the top schools pretty hostile towards an Asian presence. I heard Cornell isn't very Asian friendly and pretty conservative (politically and sociallY), so I'm not so inclined to apply there even though they won't stop sending me those freakin e-mails.</p>
<p>All of the top 30 schools have high percentages of Asians.</p>
<p>A more applicable question would be which of those schools are NOT friendly to Asians</p>
<p>lol what are you worried about?</p>
<p>Maybe my view is skewed because around here, there is a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment (and on US news there has been a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment lately). I'm just a cynical person and given my experience of the USA both on the East coast and the West coast, I've come to the conclusion that most areas in the USA are not Asian friendly. Which is why I am hoping for Stanford University (near San Francisco where there is a LOT of Chinese people). But Stanford is a school that I'm not sure I will get into, so I'm asking if you guys know any other schools from the top 30 that are PARTICULARLY Asian friendly and full of students with Asian pride (no majority of bananas if you know what I'm talking about).</p>
<p>BTW do any of you mind chancing me?
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/536417-chances-these-schools-3.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/536417-chances-these-schools-3.html</a></p>
<p>Anyone else have opinions?</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Maybe my view is skewed because around here, there is a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment (and on US news there has been a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment lately).<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>"Around here"? Around where? Where do you live?</p>
<p>And it's a mistake to confuse news reports about political disputes between the US and Chinese governments, or news reports about the alarming poisoning of food products by unscrupulous Chinese companies, with prejudice by American people against the Chinese people as a race or ethnicity. They are not the same things.</p>
<p>Well you obviously don't understand how hatred for the Chinese government translates to hatred toward Chinese people and culture in the USA. Look at the Vincent Chin case. The kid was a Chinese dude who got beaten to death with a baseball bat because some rednecks were angry about Japan "stealing" all the car manufacturing jobs in the USA during the 80s and those two rednecks were acquitted of all charges (and he wasn't even Japanese). Nowadays everybody is blaming lost jobs and the US economy on China and India and jobs being outsourced to China and India. And look at all the blatantly anti-Chinese crap Free-Tibeters and CNN spewed all over the media during the Olympics. I live in Washington State and I have gotten plenty of racist comments relating to the economy just because I'm Chinese (actually Taiwanese but technically Chinese and most white Americans can't tell the difference). BTW they complain about losing jobs as if Americans have a god given right to have whatever jobs they want in the world.</p>
<p>Don't be too angry, asianman, what goes around will come around. There will always be losers who take out their frustration and anger of their own failures on innocent people. There may not be adequate justice here on earth, but there is a justice beyond this life. The racists, rapists, pedophiles, murderers, bullies...they will all have to face the consequences of their crimes. Just don't expect absolute fairness on this side of life.</p>
<p>stop posting. you're embarrassing the rest of us. </p>
<p>i'm chinese and i can't tell the difference.</p>
<p>duke university ..fosho</p>
<p>Rice is friendly towards the Chinese. The university president has forged a number of collaborations with Chinese universities. It probably helps that his wife is Chinese-American.</p>
<p>The University of Michigan named 2007-08 China Now Theme Year:</p>
<p>"In an era of intensified globalization and a growing interest in China, the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) with the University of Michigan’s Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) is launching a year-long exploration of the culture and society of contemporary China and its place in the world. Consistent with University of Michigan President Coleman’s China Initiative, the Theme Year seeks to leverage Michigan’s unique combination of diverse scholarly communities, our acknowledged standing as a world center for the study of China, and growing campus-wide interest in China. </p>
<p>The Theme Year offers a core academic program of lectures, classes, and symposia while also fostering campus community outreach programs to engage both the public and scholarly audiences. The year further strengthens the university-wide focus on China by coordinating with related activities on campus including the “Arts on Earth” program and the University Musical Society’s “Asia Festival 2007-08.” China</a> Now</p>
<p>They even had a dragonboat race down Huron River.</p>
<p>But please don't come if you can't tolerate difference in opinions like protests supporting a free Tibet. Michigan is known for its student activism. You'll hear all sorts of opinions and protests.</p>
<p>It may not be safe for you in San Francisco either. If I remember correctly, there were similiar protests with the Tibet flag hoisted on Golden Gate Bridge when the Olympic torch passed through San Francisco.</p>
<p>They can protest all they want and I respect their opinion even if a lot of it has no logical basis and is in fact fueled by nothing but sinophobia. I just don't want to be the only Chinese/Taiwanese guy there to defend China's name (which is the case where I live haha I'm the only Chinese dude here) So as long as there is a sizable number of leaders in the community who are neutral or pro-defending-China, then it is a good school for me.</p>
<p>Southern california schools are very tolerant, considering we asian plague the place.</p>
<p>UCI is known as University of CHinese Immigrants for their high chinese % hahahah.</p>
<p>Houston is a good spot, lots of asians there.</p>
<p>New York schools too.</p>
<p>But seriously, the heck? I haven't experienced anti-asian racism anywhere and I've had extended stays at New York, Florida, California, and now I go to Indiana for college. Everyone's really friendly o_O. I don't know where you get the hate; maybe it's because you're perpetuating asian-pride so much it's getting in the face of other people. </p>
<p>And the racist comments i get i enjoy, because it makes me feel smarter than i really am :) hahahah.</p>
<p>Just looking at your username, asianangryman...it kind of perpetuates that hate/extreme ethnic that that would turn many people off...including myself.</p>
<p>New York, Florida, California, and Indiana</p>
<p>Lol. None of these places includes non-Seattle Area Washington State ;P</p>
<p>By UCI do you mean University of California Irvine?</p>
<p>You know, as a Taiwanese Asian myself, I think you hold some highly paranoid sentiments of the injustices Asians encounter.</p>
<p>All ethnic groups experience some sort of stereotyping or inequality. Certainly you vouch for Chinese nationalist ideals, which I think is great if you're that patriotic about your country. But it's a bit over the top I think, saying you want to go to a college only if it has a high percentage of Asians. College is really about diversifying yourself meeting new people rather than being surrounded by your fellow yellow 24/7.</p>
<p>That, and every place is generally tolerant, contrary to what you may think.</p>
<p>Personally, I wouldn't mind going to a place with no Asians. Then I'd be the odd man out. Which is nice, because all the ladies would find me an exotic find. :)</p>
<p>But if you're still adamant about all this, MIT, the UCs, NYU, UPenn, and maybe a few others.</p>
<p>your posts are an embarrassment to asians everywhere.</p>
<p>first of all, I'm asian. Chinese to be exact, and I honestly can't tell the difference between Taiwanese and Chinese...because to be friggin honest, THERE IS only ONE CHINA. Taiwan is not a country recognized by most of the World. not even the United States! So get off of your high horse and acknowledge the simple fact that you're Chinese. You saying otherwise is like Sarah Palin trying to declare herself Alaskan instead of just American.</p>
<h1>2: I don't know how you act in person, but if you are THIS paranoid and ethno-centric, I am not surprised that you faced a lot of racism. You're in the United States...meaning you are here to be a part of the community. In the USA, you don't NEED to separate between racial, color, cultural, etc lines because in the end, we are ALL just one big melting pot. From my experiences in both the East Coast, the Midwest, the South, and the West, I KNOW that racism only exists if you let it exist. That's just my view being Asian. I know it is different for African Americans and hispanics...but overall, I think Asians get it the easiest...if not at all. That is...if you try TOO HARD to be ASIAN and not at least TRY to be a part of the greater community. That means to stop walking around talking smack about other people in your foreign language and just acting like an ignorant FOB in general.</h1>
<h1>3: People here don't dislike Chinese people. They dislike the Chinese government. THAT IS A HUGE difference. You cite examples from the past, but you SHOULD realize that the past is the past and we have progressed beyond that. I personally find it extremely annoying when ANY race does this...i.e. when African Americans cite slavery as a reason to hate ALL white people, etc. Let the past be the past and move on. I doubt you were even conceived during the early 80's or whatever that Chin Guy faced.</h1>
<h1>4: Overall, if people are picking on you, it probably has little to do with your race and more to do with your attitude towards others around you. If you are introverted and give off an arrogant persona, people are naturally going to go away from you. I go to a school where some of the most popular people amongst EVERYONE are ASIAN and Chinese to be specific. And the school is 85% white. So NO, racism is NOT everywhere and people will like you for WHO you are, not WHAT you are. However, judging by your ignorant posts, I would say that you probably don't have that wonderful a personality and/or are anal about certain things. w/e.</h1>
<h1>5: All of the top 30 schools have an abundance of asians. TOO many to be honest. Any one of them will allow you to continue building the great self-isolating wall you seem to enjoy building with fellow ethno-introverts.</h1>
<p>Sorry if this sounds rude, but read posts like yours makes me really ashamed of some of the people in my culture who can't just be a part of the general culture instead of drawing solid race divisions.</p>
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<p>You are not nearly well traveled enough to have reached that conclusion based on sound evidence. </p>
<p>Did I mention that all of my immediate family members are Asian and all of us have spent time in Taiwan?</p>
<p>By the way, people who support independence for Tibet and independence for Taiwan are PRO-Asian, as Tibetan people and Taiwanese people are Asian just as Chinese people are, and people all over the world aspire to freedom to vote in a new government and to read and listen to news media that aren't censored by a one-party government.</p>