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To: GST who wrote (110157)8/6/2003 12:31:27 AM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<They are no longer Vietnamese>

I've worked beside Vietnamese in America. With my eyes closed, you can't tell they are Vietnamese. They speak, think, act, just like any WASP whose ancestors came here on the Mayflower.

The same thing applies to Blacks. This is what convinced me that affirmative action was a failed policy. In medical school, blacks were 11 % of the class, due to the quota system. But these future doctors all, every one, came from the black middle and upper class. None, not a single one, came from the ghetto. And none had any intention of practicing in the ghetto (where they were desperately needed), doing primary care, delivering babies to 15-year-olds with HIV. They all wanted the same comfortable jobs in the suburbs that their white classmates wanted. Again, with eyes closed, you couldn't tell who was black.

Those who have moved up and out, have very different politics, and zero sympathy, for those they left behind.



To: GST who wrote (110157)8/6/2003 8:21:49 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Nevertheless, they were formerly. And they brought their memories with them when they came here.