[444] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Affirmative action <---> segregation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sourav K. Mandal)
Tue May 1 23:14:44 2001
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From: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
Reply-To: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
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Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 23:14:01 -0400
"Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>" wrote:
> I hope you learn to like yourself and appreciate your history Sourav.
I judge myself by what _I_ accomplish, not by where I come from; the
heroics and evils of my ancestors cannot be visited upon me, nor can
one reliably project their preferences onto me.
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"Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>" wrote:
> Why is that? Why do a large percentage of the white, asian, and black
> people cluster together apart? Why don't they want to have anything to
> do with each other?
Maybe it's that same irrational, ethno-centric pride you advocate?
It's unlikely that the ultra-high concentration of East Asians in Next
House 2E is about "comfort." There is self-segregation going on, and
it's for the same reason people think affirmative action is good.
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"Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>" wrote:
> My point about Sourav's attitude is that he hasn't found 1 thing he
> likes about being South East Asian and so he had decided to reject
> it all and be bitter. I think that is a wrong thing to do an it
> isn't too humanitarian at that.
Don't worry, I've only omitted the nonsense. I still relish Indian
(classical) music, poetry, cuisine, _serious_ film (e.g., those by
Satyajit Ray), etc.
Sourav
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