ericmurphy
Posts: 2460
Joined: Oct. 2005
|
| Quote (The Ghost of Paley @ Jan. 11 2006,18:44) | | I suspect it's more than "occasional". And Asian-Americans are probably hurt even worse. Why should they suffer for something they weren't responsible for, even collectively? |
If it were more than "occasional," we'd see the proportion of African American management professionals approach their proportion of the population at large -- regardless of whether you think African Americans are as qualified for those positions as European Americans. Since that's hardly the case, I think we can rest assured that such cases are, indeed, "occasional."
Living in San Francisco, where Asian Americans make up almost half the population, I can assure you that Asian Americans are doing pretty well. The law firm I work for is almost 40% Asian American, our estate planning clients (who pretty much by definition are affluent) are way more than half Asian American, my last two dentists were both Asian American (half the dentists in their building are Asian American). The idea that African Americans are crowding Asian Americans out of the professions is, quite simply, absurd.
--------------
2006 MVD award for most dogged defense of scientific sanity
"Atheism is a religion the same way NOT collecting stamps is a hobby." —Scott Adams
|
