<p>The Chinese who entered the US before statues were enacted prohibiting further Asian immigration were nearly all males, brought here by Leland Stanford to work on his railroad. They were forbidden to marry outside of their race under the anti-miscegenation statutes that most states had in those days. As a consequence, most of them died childless.</p>
<p>When I was in college, the people for whom the standards had been most egregiously adjusted were children of wealthy alumni. My first roommate was, to put it charitably, not the brightest bulb in the pack, but he was the son of a wealthy Congressman who was an alumnus of the school, which sealed the deal for him.</p>