okay so i was reading this local newspaper article from last year about the national merit scholars from my state and there is this sneaky little paragraph at the very end that says this area where many of the scholars came from (basically where i live) is "rich with immigrants from india, china, and other asian nations" i shit you not this goddamn newspaper article tried to pull a 'these kids are only successful because they're asian immigrants' like FUCK. YOU. it is absolutely true that asians are treated differently than many other poc in the us are and east / SE / south asians are all treated differently and that's a problem because i've seen that result in antiblackness / colorism / bigotry / etc. from as-ams and that is a whole other conversation in and of itself
but is it true that asian immigrants have an edge over relatively well-off white americans (the majority of students in the so-called 'immigrant-rich' area the article refers to)? NO IT IS FUCKING NOT. FUCK. i'm so mad over this year-old article hahahaha
