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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (13490)5/28/2002 8:41:57 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
Welcome, OMD. Good post.

Well, I thought so, anyway. Of course that means someone is bound to disagree. :-)

The regular process included Asians, despite the fact that many (including my wife) had emigrated to the U.S. only ten years or so earlier at a time when they spoke no English. It included Cubans, despite the fact that they faced the same language barriers and potential discrimination as Mexicans. Despite overcoming these adversities, Asians and Cubans didn't get a break because .... well, because Asians and Cubans didn't need breaks because they would get in anyway.
Amazing, isn't it?
It used to be claimed that certain minorities did poorly academically in this country because English was not their native language and because their cultures were so different.

And then (in Silicon Valley, anyway) waves of immigrants from Vietnam and Hong Kong and India hit. And did rather well. Quite well, in fact. So well that when such was legal, San Francisco's best high school had what were effectively quotas on their numbers. Sort of like the old system that limited the number of Jews in a school. But this time in a good cause, of course. :-)

Strange. Because how is it that the Vietnamese and Chinese and Indian languages and cultures are closer to the English language and American culture the their Mexican equivalent is? Or some of our own native-grown minority cultures?

Never have understood this.
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