lightspeedsound:

I think that the perception that all Asians are engineers and doctors and lawyers is patently false, and it stems from the whole model minority culture and comes from the same stereotyping culture that assumes that “all asians look alike” because “Indians/SouthEast Asians/South Asians aren’t really Asian.”

Which is fucked up.

Look, Affirmative Action was ruled to be a legal thing because diversity in education was seen as a compelling government interest. Asians are a minority. Maybe in certain East Asian cultures the whole push towards academics and education is quite prevalent—but that doesn’t mean that there’s TONS OF ASIANS IN EVERY COLLEGE AND EVERY FIELD EVERYWHERE. I’m gonna be honest—even if I am an East Asian woman who went to law school and became a lawyer, I was PART OF A VERY SMALL MINORITY. I had people congratulating me on being a woman of color in my field. I had people shaking their heads at me, professors included, saying ‘I don’t know how you got through it, to be honest.”

That’s how fucking antiquated the legal field is. Not to mention that foreign grads are still considered second class in med school and other STEM fields like you have to literally exhaust all your American citizen options first—which means I, an ethnically Chinese, American citizen, with Filipino citizenship as well, was basically the rarest of the rare. I had a shitton of “rare shit” in terms of diversity (being queer and disabled as well) and the result is that while I get a leg-up maybe in terms of Affirmative Action, I also have to deal with a shitton of ignorance and white garbage.

So For people who assume that all Asians are rich and educated don’t need Affirmative Action then like fuck you, you don’t understand how diversity and the American Education system fucks with people.