3. Tech Company recruiters are being pressured not to hire more Asians.
If it were only about admission to top universities and to academic positions set aside for minorities, then maybe Asians could give up positions in top-tier universities to less qualified applicants and forgo university appointments and still continue to dominate the scene in Silicon Valley and other High Tech companies. But the powers that be are onto them, and recently President Obama has pressured Tech Companies to create special positions for minorities and women. And by “minorities”, he means minorities other than Asians – Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, to be precise. (It is not clear whether the women also need to be “not Asian” in order to count as women, for purposes of these positions.)
To those in the affirmative action racket, this may seem so clear and obvious as to not need any explanation or require any excuse. But now put yourself in the shoes of a mother – an immigrant from China – who sacrificed everything to give her American born son an education, but who hears that he applied to an internship at Microsoft, but was turned away. The recruiter did not even look at her son’s resume. He just said: “This position is only for blacks or Hispanics, so you don’t qualify.”
Don’t imagine for one moment that people in Chinese immigrant communities do not talk about this kind of thing in their online chat groups. The mother was distraught! She said she didn’t like any of the Republican candidates, but she was voting Republican from now on. She was doing it for the children!
Here is an English translation of the mother’s words quoted above:
“I thought about it over and over and eventually felt that it’s the right thing to do, to tell people what has happened. My eldest basically decided to major in computer science. There was a job fair on campus, and he went to apply. When he met with the Microsoft recruiter, the recruiter, without even taking a look at his resume, dismissed him simply by saying: ‘We only hire blacks and Hispanics, and we don’t hire Asians’. My son was sent on his way, just like that. … I went to visit my son and asked him about how job interviews were going, and that was when he told me this with disappointment. Both my husband and I feel very upset and angry. My eldest is a freshman in college, and my second child is a freshman in high school. Four years from now, one of them will be looking for a job, and the other is expected to enter college. Just for the sake of our kids, we decided to vote for Republicans. We don’t vote for a certain person; instead we vote based on certain policies.”
Many in the Chinese community are very liberal, and they took issue with what this mother posted. They told her that she misunderstood and that what her son had experienced was not discrimination against Chinese people. Instead, he had experienced discrimination in favor of African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans.
The mother was told that if her son had read the ad carefully, he would have realized there was no point for him to talk to the recruiter, because he did not fall into the protected class this position was created for. He should not have applied to a minority internship. He should have realized that he belonged to the vast majority in the United States who just don’t happen to be African American, American Indian or Hispanic.
More and more, Chinese students are being told that if they want to be given an equal chance at entry into top universities, they should not let it show on their application that they are Chinese. They should not talk about the struggles of their immigrant parents on their college essay. They should not include a photo with the application. They should use an English sounding name, if that is at all possible. If they don’t check the Asian box, if they self-identify as white, then maybe they will be given an equal chance. But at some point, when applying for a job, people are going to have to see your face. And if the High Tech industry is pressured to adopt quotas against Asians, then this is exactly the same kind of racism that Chinese experienced in the United States in the 1800s, only now it is passing for anti-racism, for the sake of “diversity.”
