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<p>Actually, Asian-Americans have also faced exclusion and violence due to racial discrimination and bigotry dating back to the 19th century. Whether it was racist violence by White Californians against Chinese immigrants during the Gold Rush, the Chinese-Exclusion Act of 1882, systemic exclusion from higher-paying/white collar jobs/educational opportunities, racist stereotyping in mass media…some of which continues to the present, or the Japanese-American Internment during WWII, it’s far from recent if one actually examines the American historical record.</p>
<p>However, this history tends to be forgotten not only within the American popular consciousness, but also within parts of the Asian-American community itself. </p>
<p>Especially considering the great differences in backgrounds of Asian-Americans who emigrated to the US before and those after the mid-60s when the low max annual quota on Asian immigration was effectively lifted. </p>
<p>What’s also forgotten is there were many Asian-American groups involved in the Civil Rights movement/struggles. Most of those groups were composed of mostly working-class/lower-middle class Asian-Americans whose families had been in the US for decades.</p>
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<p>In many universities where they are wary of exclusions of any type…including ones which are covered under EEOC special classes like religious creed, the practice has been to mandate no exclusions on the basis of religious beliefs or the lack thereof, even for leadership positions.</p>
<p>This was put into practice at Middlebury during my friends’ undergrad years there and divided some religious groups who tried to exclude some students from leadership positions because they didn’t believe/agree with the religious tenets of that religion. </p>
<p>Didn’t matter, the college ruled that the ones who had a problem with that cannot exclude on that basis and consequently, those religious groups ended up being split up with the more observant ones meeting off-campus as their “discriminatory policy” in leadership positions meant they weren’t allowed to use campus facilities to meet per the college’s policies. Really riled up the more religiously observant friends at the time. </p>
<p>Coincidentally, my college has similar policies, but the contention for leadership positions in our religious organizations never encountered such controversies during my time there as far as I know. </p>
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<p>Considering one’s religion/creed is a protected class under the US Constitution and Civil Rights/EEOC policies, I’m not sure it’s that simple.</p>