Check out the debate on this post - Sepia Mutiny: NRO Analyzes APA’s 80-20 plan. Here is my take on it - whatever is preached by pseudo-groups like 80-20 and other “APA” organizations, I am 100% against it. For the record, I get email alerts from 80-20 and here is my take on one fo the most famous APA victimologists of all time, Emil Guillermo. This guy writes a column in the SF-based weekly magazine called Asian Week. 90% of his columns are about how APAs are oh-so-victimized in the country all the time and how the “redneck Americans” are too dumb to see how nice we are and how they ill-treat us. Of course, the man is a tad too blind to see that he is sneering really hard at the same peolpe he says are acting unfriedly towards him…I wonder why!
I am not saying that probably some APAs are mistreated and are discriminated against, but it is really hard to complain when a majority of us are doing extremely well here by any standard. It is also really interesting to see the APA orgs backing the Democrats and Affirmative Action considering that AA hurts Asian- Americans as much as it hurts the white Americans and we are considered “over-represented” on the campus. Whose side are these orgs really on anyways?
I also think it is very disingenuous to try to bring under a single umbrella a group of people as varied as the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Pakistanis, Middle-Easterners, Bangladeshis, etc. What do we really have in common? Our countries don’t have any common interests and neither do we. How are we supposed to work together?
Obligatory inflammatory comment - the only thing really all APAs have in common is that they are all mostly brown. Arguing for our coming together on such a basis…isn’t that racist?
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“when a majority of us are doing extremely well here by any standard”……………If we take the standard of the percentage of population which is ‘poor’ or below the ‘poverty line’ in the US, except for the Phillipino Americans, ALL the other asian groups have poverty levels well above the ‘White Poverty’ Level in America. Even Indian Americans (surprise) have a higher percentage of poor people than ‘White Americans’ and the rest of the Asians have a significantly higher percentage of poverty as compared to ‘White’ Americans. Now I am not suggesting that the reason that the Asian Americans have a higher percentage of poverty is racism. I am just wondering aloud about how ‘well’ are ‘we’ doing. I guess as compared to our countries of ‘origin’ we are probably still doing better. Btw I saw this poverty statistic on the V DARE website ( I know its an Anti Immigration Website) but it had a link to an official US Government website for anybody who wants to check these poverty numbers.
Posted by: Al Mujahid at August 25, 2004 4:42 PM
I think I will follow that link cause something’s fishy about that. The median income of Indian Americans is very high.
Posted by: MD at August 25, 2004 4:58 PM
Posted by: Shanti at August 27, 2004 12:52 PM
The Poverty rate for Indians in the US is 9.7%. This is higher than the ‘White Poverty Rate’. Except for the Phillipinos all other Asians have a poverty rate of 10 plus. The Median however as Shanti pointed out is much better. I guess the 9.7 percenters are all manning 7-11’s and driving cabs. And thats what most people think Indians in the US do anyway :tongue3:
Posted by: Al Mujahid at August 27, 2004 3:44 PM
I LIKE THE INDIANS APAS BECAUSE THEY ARE SO GREAT:beam:.THEY HAVE A WONDERFUL CULTURE AND THEY ARENT MURDERES.:nice::nice:;):blush::beam:
Posted by: rose at August 16, 2006 3:33 AM