{"id":181,"date":"2007-01-09T22:42:02","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T05:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/little-asia-on-the-hill\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T05:44:07","slug":"little-asia-on-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/little-asia-on-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Asia on the hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Berkeley for a year and a half, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/07\/education\/edlife\/07asian.html\">Timothy Egan&#8217;s Sunday&#8217;s NY Times Education Life cover story<\/a> about the increased population of Asians on campus in the post-affirmative action was a must read. I thought I would have a much stronger reaction to it than I did. When I was a freshman at UCLA, the most shocking thing for me was the high level of self segregation on campus. I could not believe the number of ethnic clubs and organizations on campus and the fact that many of them actually received university funding. (People, people, you could be funding arts organizations, club sports, science clubs, internship opportunities, but please, please, not the Chinese Republicans. I do not ask you for a middle-class white boys organization.) I remember receiving an invitation to rush an Asian fraternity in the mail before I even moved into the dorms. The person who sent it received a harsh, harsh reply from me. Unfortunately, the most interesting thing about Egan&#8217;s story is the odd way in which he inserts himself, in the first person, into a story that really doesn&#8217;t require his presence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He dashes off to class, and I wander through the serene setting of Memorial Glade, in the center of campus, and then loop over to Sproul Plaza, the beating heart of the university, where dozens of tables are set up by clubs representing every conceivable ethnic group. Out of nowhere, an a cappella group, mostly Asian men, appears and starts singing a Beach Boys song. Yes, tradition still matters in California.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Berkeley for a year and a half, so Timothy Egan&#8217;s Sunday&#8217;s NY Times Education Life cover story about the increased population of Asians on campus in the post-affirmative action was a must read. I thought I would have a much stronger reaction to it than I did. When I was a freshman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}