谢谢lz的summary。我觉得很好。
我把最近的几个帖子发给了80-20教育基金会的President，SB Woo，下面英文部分是他
今天的简单回复。SB是第一代移民里第一个担任美国副州长职位的华裔，他曾经和我们
分享美国的政治和中国是很不一样的。他竞选成功后的第一件事就是去和对手套近乎，
希望以后合作愉快。而利用团结的一边倒的投票方式去影响主要政党更是很多大的组织
（Political Action Committee)常用的技巧--犹太人正是用了这种方式对美国政坛有
着巨大的影响力。几乎每个DC的政客都是一个犹太政治组织的成员。只要犹太人反对的
政客，他们一定可以把其拉下马。
SB也告诉我下个星期左右，80-20的newsletter会专门解释Affirmative Action和这次
最高法院裁决的族裔考虑录取政策之间的关联。等那封newsletter出来后，我会帮着翻
译并转帖到这里，敬请关注。
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We may want to be aware that unless an individual is running, one does need
to care about hooking in with blacks and Hispanics. Play politics without
truly understanding politics is like negotiating AGAINST oneself. One
shouldn't do it.
It's true that we only want to stop whatever policy that discriminates
against us. See my recent answer to a journalist:
Dear XXX:
Here is the general answer. Thank. Good luck with your article. SB
Yes, policies can produced un-intended consequences. Worse, a policy
that was intended to help minorities for historic wrongs can be executed in
a way that made the smallest minority in America, Asian Americans, the most
discriminated in work places and in entering elite colleges.
Affirmative action (AA) was an example of how a policy can be completely
distorted during its implementation. AA was intended to help minorities
which were historically wronged. Asian Americans were on the received ends
of discriminations perhaps more so than Hispanics. Recall the Chinese
Exclusion Act that was in force from 1882 to 1943 and the internment of
Japnese Americans, although not of German and Italian Americans, during WWII
. So how is one to understand that after more than 5 decades of AA,
(1) Asian Ams. youngsters need to score 140 point higher than whites to have
equal chance to enter elite colleges, according to Princeton sociologist
Thomas Espenshade, and
(2) Asian Am adults face the lowest glass ceilings when compared with all
other Americans, a conclusion verified in written by EEOC Chief Statistician
Ronald Edwards? See figure 1 below:
What could have caused such a diametrically opposite effect in a policy?
(1) America's democracy responds to squeaking wheels.
Asian Ams are not fond of squeaking. Hence, when others squeaked loudly
asking for their share of compensation for the historic wrongs, Asian Ams
became the sacrificial lamb used to create
the "compensation" needed to quite the others.
(2) Prejudice and discrimination rise out of bigotry and/or a desire to
create an unfair advantage for those in power in any zero-sum competition.
Admission to elite colleges is a zero-sum game. About a century ago, the
elite colleges tried to limit the number of completely qualified Jewish
students. Today, Asian Americans are the new Jews in the college admission
games.
Pretexts employed to limit AsAm enrollment are indistinguishable from
those utilized to impose quotas against Jewish Americans throughout much of
the past century. The equivalent of the current "top 10%" was the "top
seventh of qualifying schools" adopted by Harvard early last century.
Today's' fuzzy notion of "diversity" and "comprehensive review" were matched
by past emphasis of ill-defined "character, leadership and social
compatibility" used to limit Jewish students.
AsAms are not just good test takers. For example, in 2006, they were 27%
of Presidential Scholars, who are chosen based on scholarship, service,
leadership, and creativity.
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The blacks and Hispanic leaders are extremely aware and accustomed to
the timidity the Asian Am leaders in D.C.. Show them our tough side, things
will get better. You may not believe it. But have you played in American
politics?
Do practice American politics. IN america, play American politics which is
extremely rough and tumble.
SB
