bgaesop:

lightspeedsound:

I think that the perception that all Asians are engineers and doctors and lawyers is patently false, and it stems from the whole model minority culture and comes from the same stereotyping culture that assumes that “all asians look alike” because “Indians/SouthEast Asians/South Asians aren’t really Asian.”

Which is fucked up.

Look, Affirmative Action was ruled to be a legal thing because diversity in education was seen as a compelling government interest.  Asians are a minority. Maybe in certain East Asian cultures the whole push towards academics and education is quite prevalent—but that doesn’t mean that there’s TONS OF ASIANS IN EVERY COLLEGE AND EVERY FIELD EVERYWHERE. I’m gonna be honest—even if I am an East Asian woman who went to law school and became a lawyer, I was PART OF A VERY SMALL MINORITY. I had people congratulating me on being a woman of color in my field. I had people shaking their heads at me, professors included, saying ‘I don’t know how you got through it, to be honest.” 

That’s how fucking antiquated the legal field is. Not to mention that foreign grads are still considered second class in med school and other STEM fields like you have to literally exhaust all your American citizen options first—which means I, an ethnically Chinese, American citizen, with Filipino citizenship as well, was basically the rarest of the rare. I had a shitton of “rare shit” in terms of diversity (being queer and disabled as well) and the result is that while I get a leg-up maybe in terms of Affirmative Action, I also have to deal with a shitton of ignorance and white garbage. 

So For people who assume that all Asians are rich and educated don’t need Affirmative Action then like fuck you, you don’t understand how diversity and the American Education system fucks with people.

White men are significantly underrepresented in fields like education, art, and social work. Should there be pro-white-men affirmative action in those fields? If not, what is the criterion we should use, if not “percent in this field vs the general population”?

a) I’d like to see the stats that says white men are underrepresented in art since like I don’t know, white male artists make up the majority of western museums 

b) white men not going into social work and education I can understand because GUESS WHAT THOSE ARE TRADITIONALLY NOT CONSIDERED THAT HIGH PAYING JOBS IN AMERICA

c) you know where white men ARE overrepresented? CEOS. You know what that means? It means that white men could choose to go into social work and education, but why bother? They’re more likely to succeed in jobs that will earn them millions. Versus, I don’t know, dealing with the enormous amount of stress for very little pay that social workers and teachers get.

d) versus the amount of people of color/women of color who are struggling to get by and get into business and all these other high paying fields because I DON’T KNOW, WHITE MEN ARE TRADITIONALLY THE PEOPLE CHOSEN FOR THESE FIELDS

e) i.e. just stop fucking whining white men. Diversity is not about the people who are already occupying the vast majority of the most valuable real estate. Just sayin’.