Posted on 12/03/2011 12:59:53 PM PST by decimon
Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one box for her race: white.
"I didn't want to put 'Asian' down," Olmstead says, "because my mom told me there's discrimination against Asians in the application process."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Asians. The new Jews.
Success must be punished.
I like it when I ask if so and so is home, they just say yes and sit there, like lumps. Yes, i know they answered just what I asked, but it makes them seem dim.
Asians, with their strong and traditional family backgrounds and well-established work ethics, coupled with their attention to study, tend to do better than a great many others in a college or work setting; therefore, yes, there is discrimination AGAINST them in both college admissions and job hiring/promotion.
Discrimination is most often viewed in the penumbra of affirmatice action - as making room for either the poorly educated or incompetent.
Therefore, it is most often reserved for “others than Asians.”
I always identify myself as black, Native American and Pacific Islander although I am very fair and not particularly exotic looking. When I moved and was signing up for a new library card several years ago, the clerk told me, “You’re the first Pacific Islander we’ve ever had!” She was excited, like we had both won a prize. Why the library needed to know my ethnicity I can’t begin to guess.
I always check “Native American”
I was born here (which is more than Obama can say)
TT
Have you had any success in your Genealogy research?
My problem has been similar ... Virgina (West Virgina) the Census didn’t count Indians or Colored ... my Grandmother was both and I haven’t been able to find anything about her parents ... (her siblings have also passed)
TT
It’s been like hitting a wall.
My next move is to get my grandfathers military records. Then I will know his parents’s names, places and dates of actual births, and can research from there. I do know that his mother was born in Memphis, TN, in 1874; but we know nothing about his father who was from Massachusetts. (I guess you have to be really careful about marrying a Yankee!)
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