Asian Americans and Hispanics are also given affirmative action." Then he goes on to say. and I wonder if these words strike my colleagues as discriminatory as they strike me. "But Asian Americans scarcely need it." He and others contend that most Asian Americans. most young people of Asian ancestry come from affluent communities and therefore have some sort of socioeconomic advantage that most AfricanAmericans do not have. Well. have my colleagues ever been to a Chinatown in a big city in America? Would we consider that to be an affluent community? Do we lump all Asian Americans together. including Cambodians. Laotians. the Mung population. all the recent immigrants to America. many of whom have struggled to obtain American citizenship. of Asian American ancestry? Those kinds of words are inherently discriminatory. We cannot. we should not allow a practice that pits one racial group against another.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about Asian Americans as affluent and not needing affirmative action.