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Damn, so what's the alternative? Because there's the empirical fact to consider that Asians are notorious nepotists under the guise of "equal opportunity". Not just orientals either, take a peek in any New York 7-Eleven or Dunkin Donuts.
Here are some numbers:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/24/us/affirmative-action-bans.html (note on this one doesn't even include the Asian statistics)
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race-tutoring-20150222-story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebat...statistics-indicate-an-ivy-league-asian-quota
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/11/affirmative-action
Here is the information LIONBLOOD was talking about, in regards to medical school admissions:
https://www.aei.org/publication/acc...-affirmative-discrimination-blacks-hispanics/
Being Asian is by far the worst demographic to be in America in terms of academia. They are not well portrayed here and are far less socially integrated than other races, so schools with a certain prestige or reputation to uphold that isn't solely derived from technical ability (such as MIT, CMU, Caltech) are able to use "holistic" selection processes to use subjective criteria to lower the amount of Asians admitted.
This is for undergraduate admissions. The numbers show a different story for graduate studies, where your "overall balance" isn't as important as your skill and passion in your field of study (and is subsequently easier to objectively quantify), which is why you see a significantly higher percentage of Asians at the graduate level, even at schools like the Ivy League where they are not as well-received in undergraduate admissions.
I agree affirmative action is frustrating, but so is the fact that your ancestors fought and died for equal footing only for immigrants to come in and reap the benefits or superior education and public services while exercising their rights to be insular. To deny this would just be an ******* thing to do.
However, I do think there's a massive number of blacks who squander away these opportunities under the victim narrative...just lazy and ignorant, not realizing what immigrants actually have to go through to obtain legitimate citizenship in this country.
I can't lie, that's privilege.