Vincent
(Tuong Le)
ASA002-A02
Week
3 Response to “Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Paving the Way for
Campus Activism”
The
article discusses the benefits of diversity within the college
environment, while also showing how Asian admission into colleges has
slowed down in the past few years, yet I am not yet convinced. While
I am not personally against affirmative action, the wording and view
of the article makes me confused and I question its message. I feel
like the article needed to more clearly state how affirmative action
effects the Asian-American community in the context of college
admission for Asian-Americans and also for specific groups of
Asian-Americans.
Despite
my confusion, I still hold a generally favorable opinion of
affirmative action and I believe that the benefits stated (such as
lowered prejudice) are good for society, although they depart from
the focus of college admissions.
Questions:
How could affirmative action help underrepresented groups within the
Asian-American community, such as Pacific Islanders and Southeast
Asians?
How
does affirmative action affect Asian-American college admissions as a
whole? Would less Asian-Americans be accepted in general with the
current amount of Asian-Americans in undergraduate programs?
Does
affirmative action take note of specific groups of Asian-Americans
such as Hmong, Samoan, etc or does it aggregate people into the
grouping of “Asian”?
Just a joke.
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