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<p>you’re essentially saying ‘if this thing benefits you, you’re going to support it; and if it doesn’t, you’re not.’ that seems pretty logical to me. Everyone has interests and no one wants to be ‘discriminated’ against, but some people are going to be.</p>
<p>the problem is essentially one of politics. Whether Vietnamese students are poorer than hispanic students or not, they’re still collectively labeled as Asian. And unfortunately, there’s no distinction between ‘rich asian’ and ‘poor asian.’ Even if something just like how poor someone is was taken into account, i’d still imagine that the poor asians would have much higher stats than their poor non-asian peers; So if you admitted by stats after that (which i’m sure the people with high stats would argue that you should), the asians might potentially still dominate a school. </p>
<p>The question is: why aren’t people educated at the rate of the percentage of populations they represent? why is california +35% hispanic, but the percentage of students at UCLA for hispanics is only 14%? And why is it that california is only 13% asian, but asians make up 35% of UCLA? shouldn’t these figure be reversed?</p>
<p>sources:
[University</a> of California, Los Angeles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“University of California, Los Angeles - Wikipedia”>University of California, Los Angeles - Wikipedia)
[California</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“California - Wikipedia”>California - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>so back to my whole point about politics: isn’t it bad, politically, for a public university whose purpose should be to serve the people of the state that it’s in, that it doesn’t educate the people that populate it in the same rates that they do, but in opposite rates?</p>
<p>And lastly, even if asians are poorer than hispanics, they’re education rate is still much higher. So even if you are born poor, if you’re asian, you’re much more likely of being educated than your NAM (non-asian minority) counterpart (why this is, i don’t know. We might conjecture that maybe it’s cultural):</p>
<p>source:
[Education</a> outcomes in the United States by race and other classifications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_outcomes_in_the_United_States_by_race_and_other_classifications]Education”>Achievement gaps in the United States - Wikipedia)</p>