Eduard Alfonso
ASA 2 Section 2
Week 3 Response
Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action
I think it’s best to start out with explaining my picture. The color wheel with no color represents the one of the possible solutions the UC regents have in order to fairly accept UC applicants. I believe it to be the best solution because a person’s intelligence should only take their earned merit into account.
Source: http://printablecolouringpages.co.uk/?s=color+wheel+1
Acceptance to the UC, or any institution in general, should be based on merit and scholarship, not by class variables that can turn into a bias. But how do we classify ourselves? This article brings up some interesting discussion as to whether or not we are over- or underrepresented. This also brings up other aspects on how to rightfully judge someone’s merit in different social situations while not taking into account race.
My question is, the determination of racial bias seems extremely subjective. How are we to fairly equate one another if we keep looking at race? Who is right when it comes to say, this group is underrepresented or this other group get’s favored more? One’s accomplishment as an African American could be deemed as less significant as a similar accomplishment made by someone of Caucasian descent. Although, this may be an extreme example of the bias, it still holds when judging other groups.
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