<p>My mother is curious about the open possibilities for me to find a future wife at college.</p>
<p>With this in mind, how is the Asian population in GA Tech? (or how about the surrounding Atlanta area?)</p>
<p>P.S. Asian being, Oriental, thank you!</p>
<p>GT probably has the most asians of any public school outside of California. Most of the area northeast of Atlanta is heavily asian, as well (and by heavily I mean over 50% in spots).</p>
<p>Based on the context of your post, I assume that “how is the Asian population in GA Tech” means “how are the East Asian women at GA Tech.”</p>
<p>Students who self-identify as “Asian or Pacific Islander” make up about 17.4% of the Tech undergraduate student body ([Source](<a href=“http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_archives/Final%20CDS2009_2010.pdf]Source[/url]”>http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_archives/Final%20CDS2009_2010.pdf)</a>). I have no hard evidence to prove it, but I bet that the male-female ratio within this “Asian or Pacific Islander” group is the same as the overall undergraduate student body: 63.8% male, 36.2% female. If my assumption that the overall undergraduate ratio holds for the “Asian or Pacific Islander” group, then you have about 851 ladies within this group. (Remember, though, that quite a few of those 851 ladies are ethnic Indians, who are not “Orientals.”) But statistics really don’t matter if you possess confidence and thick skin; Asian male / Asian female couples are not a rarity on campus.</p>
<p>If you do have a preference for East Asian women, are thinking about the possibility of settling down in the next half decade or so and starting a family, and want to study at Georgia Tech, I recommend buying a car and getting familiar with Emory. They’re 21.45% “Asian or Pacific Islander,” and they have more ladies than men.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who found this post racist? I would think there should be bigger concerns in picking a college than whether they have a prejudicially specialized MR degree…</p>
<p>I don’t see how it’s racist at all. OP didn’t mention anything about racial inferiority or superiority. It’s not racist to have a preference for [insert ethnic group here] women.</p>
<p>AAGAJA</p>
<p>i found your post immensely interesting. i like your mom haha. </p>
<p>i’m curious though, what asian ethnicity are you?</p>
<p>AAGAJA- Did you know “Oriental” is considered an offensive, racist term? Not too smooth insulting women you intend to seduce.</p>
<p>I’m not AAGAJA, but regarding the offensive nature of “oriental,” it all depends. Our cousins across the Atlantic, the British, use “Asian” to describe South Asians and “Oriental” to describe East Asians (viz. Chinese), so “oriental” isn’t offensive at all in the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>When used to describe a person of East Asian ancestry in our country, “oriental” is certainly antiquated, but it’s not racist and not necessarily offensive, either (cf. the n-word, which is offensive).</p>
<p>Washington State has banned the term, deemed derogatory from all state documents as of 2002. Please Google at your leisure.</p>
<p>Please keep the “racist” prattle out of this thread. Feel free to sound offended elsewhere.</p>
<p>Please keep your self-dignified prattle out of this thread. Feel free to give orders elsewhere…</p>
<p>You’re taking it upon yourself to feel offended for the OP when it’s clear to anyone that the OP is in fact “oriental”. Relax!</p>
<p>Getting back to the topic and disregarding the oriental as racist remark (which I don’t feel offeded like all other chinese japanese korean and vietnamese). There are oriental interest group such as csa( chinese student association) kasa ( korean american student ) vsa( vietnamese student association) but there only few handful japanese and there doesn’t seem to be any organization for japanese student. For finding girlfriend, you will have lots of competition since you know the ratio but there are asian organization within georgia tech for asian community.</p>
<p>huh, interesting topic.</p>
<p>Actually, we are anywhere between 30-40% Asian. However, this includes Middle Eastern and Indian students.</p>
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<p>Why don’t you go be a tool elsewhere? There’s no need for conversations about racism to outburst on a Georgia Tech admissions forum for Christ’s sake.</p>
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<p>We could be, but I am not sure if you have a source for this. If you check the most recent [url=<a href=“http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_archives/Final%20CDS2009_2010.pdf]CDS[/url”>http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_archives/Final%20CDS2009_2010.pdf]CDS[/url</a>], there were a total of 2351 “Asian or Pacific Islander” undergrads out of 13,515. 406 undergrads declined to self-identify racial classiciation, and even if you assume that all 406 are “Asian or Pacific Islander,” the total percentage of “Asian or Pacific Islander” undergrads at Tech is 20.4%. (Otherwise, it’s 17.4% without the “race/ethnicity unknown” students.)</p>
<p>Including grad students, there were a total of 20,291 students. 30% times 20,291 gets us 6087 “Asian or Pacific Islander” students at GT. If you subtract the 2351+406=2757 “Asian or Pacific Islander” undergrads from the 6087 total figure, you get 3330 “Asian or Pacific Islander” grad students. Since there are 6776 total grad students, your 30% figure suggests that just under half of the grad students at Tech are “Asian or Pacific Islander.”</p>
<p>Eh, while that may be true, I don’t think half the grad students here are “Asian or Pacific Islander.” I think there are still more white (though not necessarily white American) grad students than “Asian or Pacific Islander” ones.</p>
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<p>I apologize for continuing this, as it does little to answer the original poster, and my point has already been stated. However, fabrizio did feel the need to bump a 2-week old thread to post his “opinion”… and I happen to feel a need to respond.</p>
<p>The response you quoted was me making a parody of post #8. It is interesting how my post makes me a “tool,” but the original post (containing the original “tooliness” that you accuse my parody of harboring) and to which I was responding, is considered fine by you. The only difference between the two posts is the opinion they take, not their level of “tooliness.” So clearly your accusations are not based on the actual merit, but based simply on the fact that you disagree with me. I would advise you to generally refrain from calling people whom you disagree with tools. Surely you have a better argument than that? Now, if you wish to amend your insult to be inclusive of post #8… At least then your logic would by consistent. I also find it interesting (read: ironic) that someone displaying such blatant bias finds it prudent to resurrect a two-week old issue to lecture me on what is or isn’t racist. </p>
<p>I still stand by my original statement that to make a college decision based in part on whether the population of a certain race or ethnicity is sufficient to find a partner has racial implications that go beyond acceptable levels of inequality for someone claiming to be without racist intent (note:the original poster has not actually made such a claim). I understand that each person has a different idea of what they find attractive. However, I also understand that certain people seem to believe it is OK to instill in their children the idea that misogyny is an acceptable practice. It is OK to make individual decisions about whom one finds attractive. It is not acceptable to make public statements excluding thousands of students at a particular institution from one’s dating pool based on some archaic notion of what one’s mother finds to be acceptable dating practices and to then expect not to have such a statement noted for its racist connotations.</p>
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<p>I am not the author of that quotation. Moreover, the thread had already been bumped last night by iversonpz, who is also not me.</p>
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<p>I don’t see how, “I prefer Asian women,” has anything to do with misogyny. OP isn’t saying that a woman’s place is in the house. He simply said that he preferred to date Asian women. He didn’t say that women of other racial classifications were inferior. There’s nothing racist or misogynistic about saying “I prefer Asian women”!</p>
<p>I was unaware of the post dates, but I was actually referring to your obvious satire on post #10, not #8.</p>
<p>Swing and a miss?</p>
<p>Even your first post was stupid ffs…He said his mom was interested in the possibility of him finding a future wife at GT - he wasn’t basing his college decision on the amount of asian women, and he was in no way racist. Are you the type of idiot I would potentially deal with every day for 4 years or does every school have people like you?</p>