<p>I think that admissions committees may already be viewing Asians as equivalent to whites. After all, these are the two groups of applicants who are not URMs.</p>
<p>Actually, it depends on the school and the context At two top LACs we visited several years ago, the adrep said that Asians would be given a tip as the LACs were trying to increase minority representation. In our school district, Asians were counted in when reporting ethnic diversity (this used to be a factor in school assignment until it was replaced by SES) but when the phrase “ethnic minority” was used, even officially, it usually meant African-Americans and Hispanics (as in "ethnic minority achievement lags beind that of whites’').</p>
<p>Marian - excellent post. There are a number of students from Asia at my
d’s high school. Sometimes I wonder what it must take as a parent to
send my 13 or 14 year old son or daughter off to the U.S. to secondary
school. How many American parents would send their kids to Hong Kong,
China, Korea, Japan or elsewhere far away at that age? Maybe it’s just
a privileged few (it’s a prep school) but it still leaves me impressed
at the notion. These kids will be at least trilingual also - first language
is Asian, second is English, third is whatever they are picking up
in school (French, Spanish, Latin, etc.).</p>
<p>Of course there is nothing wrong with people wanting to live in communities with a similar culture. Racism, race wars, white flight or whatever you call it is a giant distraction from the fact that the gap between the rich and poor in this country (and the world in general) is growing beyond belief. </p>
<p>Behind the conventional image of a London, San Francisco or Manhattan as a supposedly fun place with lots of high tech businesses, good jobs and pricey apartments (read: gated community for the elite), are millions of service-class poor people commuting for 5 hours a day to work for a few bucks an hour tending to all the nightclubs, fancy apartments, eateries and offices that all the “new creative industries” require, and cramming into tiny apartments with dozens of other poor people. The reason is the increasing hierarchical nature of the world we live in, and how it is dominated by corporations controlled by the elite few. The implications of this are what should really be bothering people, not “white flight.”</p>
<p>Read some of Mike Davis’s work.</p>
<p>They are talking about my school. The author twisted the words of some people she interviewed. It enraged a lot of parents here.</p>
<p>Spikezz, What was wrong about the story? Why exactly are people mad?</p>