Despite anti-affirmative action rallies which have attracted bold headlines and media coverage, Asian Americans overwhelmingly support affirmative action, concluded an analysis of survey results from AAPI Data.
The survey found that 73 percent of Asian Americans support affirmative action.
So where do the headlines proclaiming Asian Americans oppose affirmative action come from? They are headlines written by editors who lump all Asian Americans together.
The survey found that support among members of the Chinese community for affirmative action is at just 41%. Those headlines would be more accurate if they proclaimed that Chinese Americans oppose affirmative action.
The survey results are based on data acquired in multi-lingual telephone surveys taken in 2012, 2014 and 2016.
Support of affirmative action in the Chinese American community plummeted from 73% in 2012 to 41% in 2016. According to the analysis by Karthick Ramakrishnan and Janelle Wong, Chinese Americans almost are entirely responsible for the decline in support among Asian Americans overall for affirmative action. Chinese Americans make up the largest Asian subgroup in the United States.
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RE: Analysis Finds Asian Americans overwhelmingly Support Affirmative Action: Those that oppose affirmative action need to brush up on their history and understand that history can repeat itself if not taken seriously.
RE: Analysis finds Asian Americans overwhelmingly support Affirmative Action: Affirmative Action is a tool that has benefited non-Asians. In higher education we are kept down. In the senior management level of corporate America, we are not represented as a % of the population. We cannot apply for school or jobs under affirmative action. Affirmative Action hurts Asians. Do your homework. Affirmative Action does not apply to us. Don’t fall for leftists lies to get us to react to racial identity politics. Our family did not struggle for over 100 years in USA to give up our earned place in society just to make other groups slack off or benefit from their cultural miscues. http://www.businessinsider.com/asian-american-groups-doj-affirmative-action-definition-ivy-league-harvard-2018-2