Well, that’s my point. Asking for more granularity helps avoid some of that, does it not?
Nothing irritates my Latino family members more than being labeled as Mexican. Not because there is anything wrong with it, but because they just aren’t. Their ancestry, customs, and culture are much different.
Why there is this assumption that a third gen Asian American would have “customs and culture” “much different” from the rest of Americans?
They may, they may not - another reason for context. No one is making an assumption.
Well, if they do not have distinct “customs and culture”, then there should an option that says the “American” kind.
@jzducol My wife is from Cental Asia and is often asked where she is from. She never takes offense and is happy to have the conversation about it, travels, etc. I do not think everyone means it to be offensive and in fact many just find it interesting.
I don’t think you get it. If your wife was born here and she no longer even had family member in Central Asia she would have felt entirely different about the question.
Maybe you are right. My son was born here and has no issues with the question, in fact seems proud that he is a bit different but perhaps in time it will change, I hope not.
It’s interesting to observe these different stances on the use of race in admissions, even if the topic at broad wasn’t my original focus. I find it unfortunate that as an Asian I should be held to a higher standard relative to my peers; perhaps the U.S. needs to take after other countries in maintaining race-blind admissions.
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It’s only a very small number of colleges that discriminate against Asians ; not surprisingly those are the ones that have a disproportionate number of Asian applicants (e.g. Ivys). But that is a pretty broad brush. A gay Asian opera singer interested in studying art history would be primarily thought of as a gay musician who happens to be Asian. The same applicant who was straight, had EC’s like math club, and wanted to study engineering would be in a much larger pool and less likely to be admitted.
There are some colleges where being an Asian male is an advantage - LACs have too many female applicants and accept lower qualification from males.
@jzducol I agree. It’s sad for me to see this. Asian-Americans are ORM in certain top colleges while being URM in politics, acting, NBA and sports. Do Asian-Americans get some beneficial treatment in the fields where they are URMs? Not really.