0:00 thank you [Music] and huge news for a lot of people especially in the Asian Community really the Supreme Court has turned over affirmative action what adversities oh it's only for universities well as a higher as a practice for yeah for bringing in students oh the universities are over all the money feels 100 agents yup yeah good luck don't even know where affirmative action is actually like used us outside of universities like our companies are like you know what I mean like I don't know like hiring for yeah corporations I've heard of it but I always like heard of it in the context
0:50 of school admissions never like in in in like Walmart has a quota or whatever I don't know you know what's crazy though is like when you look at the two sides to this like communities that want it and then ones that don't it feels so weird it's it's really hard to what are the two main sides because like if you go to like Diet Prada or like one of those like uh kind of like more liberal Pages it feels like that's an attack on black people a hundred percent and then you go to like Asian side and they're like cheering for it because they're like great now I'm like kid who scored higher than other races can now get into the colleges I think it's so difficult to create policy that can affect millions of people because our lives are so different for example right like I've
1:41 seen the positive effects of affirmative action working in inner cities because like let's say uh you know you have a higher chance growing up in a broke neighborhood to get to a point where maybe you'll become a doctor or something and then you'll go back and service your communities and stuff like that and even me I'm I'm kind of a product of I have all the recipes of failing and then I got financial aid I got you know all the second third fourth fifth sixth chances to finally get a college degree and then like you know change my life around so like there's all these I don't know it's kind of hard to say we're like well you didn't get go to Harvard with a 2.5 I didn't no so that's
2:32 like because that's more about that that's true affirmative action working like when uh I was in college and I was trying to go to med school and I would hear like we would I would go to all these like kind of bridge style programs do summer internships and stuff at UCLA and as I went down the line and asked like okay what did like what does your package look like because everyone has grades as uh MCAT uh extracurriculars or whatever and then I would hear a ton of Asians with like super high GPA getting into middle tier score uh schools and then I would see a bunch of other ethnicities with even like maybe even subpar get into some of the top schools and then so I felt bad just for the people that worked crazy hard and they just straight up get rejected and I'm like holy ████ and then
3:22 what does that teach like the kids all the hard work doesn't pay off I I I read this other thing too about how it doesn't set up the inner city kids for Success because like for example right like they get passed through the system and then when they get to the top where you're in an Ivy League or whatever and then the they're not prepared to do the workload because they're not used to it and then so the failure rate is extremely high because the dropout rate instead of being prepped for that high level of like AP classes and all that so once they get into the classroom they're like what the ████ dude I this is crazy I didn't I am not ready for this level of like work yeah training for ivy league is an unnatural amount of prep like no normal human being coincidentally ends up with
4:13 that much yeah five years old exactly yeah and I think that's like the lifestyle of prepping like Asian kids prepping for high education you sacrifice almost everything else yeah your childhood pretty much I feel like there was a time time when this was probably a good like equalizer so for example right let's say integration just happened and um whatever you know because it was segregated or whatever like the the disparity in education was crazy and maybe they had some like hardcore um like highly like academic achieving groups within like uh the the black community or whatever right but they didn't have the opportunity but now like they they have a chance to get into the Ivy Leagues which was like a super
5:03 protected hardcore like like you know kind of like a boys club now they could break through and I could now they could come through whatever maybe maybe like I don't know the 60s or whatever maybe it did work then but I feel like it's been such a long time from that point that the original intention no longer applies that could be a case too I think it's dope if they put money into the areas that need it but don't lower the hoop for certain people yeah like you know if you need to if we need diversity then what do you what do you say Lord of The Who what do you mean what do you say lower the hoop because some some so Asians are recorded are required to dunk on like a 4.0 GPA hoop and then some other races are like 3.0 or whatever why not why not
5:53 lower the tennis net yeah yeah why not yeah lower the tennis no yeah cause that's one of the uh that's all bigger because I've also seen kind of like an amorph philosophical page the way they talk about it where it's like um where they say like isn't it by isn't it like a using the color of their skin to admit students isn't that innately racist that's that's that's what they're saying yeah right yeah but then there's people using that exact same sentence in the opposite way yeah that it is right that you're racist exactly part of this oh good the biggest winner of affirmative action was white women because being a woman you're a minority and then if you come from a lower income
6:43 but you apply for everything you actually win the most if you're lower income I think but I think for just like a regular white lady that's not like ████ like Ruth from Ozarks I don't know ████ about ████ yeah but statistically they win the most so part of what colleges are saying that they're maybe gonna look at doing to kind of just get around this is use the essays part of admissions to like have people basically talk about their experiences and their lived experiences so they can kind of discern yeah like race maybe yeah because if they talk about doing homework in the in their parents restaurants they're like Asian kid ████ stop don't don't bring them in there you go and if they talk about like growing up playing a lot of basketball black kid all right I have a bunch of kids just making up stories yeah are you gonna have Asian kids
7:35 trying to like make them think that he grew up like you know Hispanic or whatever my uh thought I don't know if this is correct so let me know please if I'm ████ missing the mark but uh even though it's viewed that like affirmative action gives opportunities to black kids or white kids to go to good colleges I always thought that it got affirmative action got manipulated by The Ivy Leagues so that they cannot have all Asians I don't know if that's even remotely close but oh where it's like so the public views it as oh this helps um underserved communities but from the institutions from the institution side let's keep these ████ out exactly and that's that's honestly what I thought because I don't think any ivy league wants their image of
8:27 their student body to be all Indians and Chinese guys yeah yeah that's also true like the skulls and bolts or whatever because again like hotels and ████ looks like yeah yeah like like we were saying the prep to achieve at that level if we're just talking scores right if it's just numbers yeah the prep they are sacrificing their entire social life to just have those exact scores so when they don't get it they're like what the ████ because if you did just go by numbers and you didn't know what race they are yeah obviously you're gonna get s███████ of Asians yeah like that's it's not gonna be me that's why they they started saying like well you gotta have a well-rounded thing yeah and they want that like socially like you don't do anything else Asians you just like you have no personality Asians you just ████ math smart and that's why there's that like there's that likability Clause yeah have you seen that in their admissions there's a
9:18 there's a likability trade yeah and it's like a it's like a that's the hackable trade it's like no it's objective yeah and that could be based on your community service it could be based on things you've done extracurricularly you do what keg stand for and I and I totally get that like if they would want a more diverse student body yeah they are going to get some pretty great Community leaders in there if you mix it up you're not just going to get these students that don't ████ talk to anybody and they just want to do their work the way they've been their robots up to that point they're gonna stay ████ robots and you probably don't want a school like that I get it but then also like admit it a little bit yeah yeah you know what I mean like don't lie don't lie that opens up a portal to so many other questions exactly so we can't have that but I never saw um University or like prestigious universities as a place of Merit I always saw it as a place of nepotism like you got old school
10:10 families that are connected it's like Heritage it's like man we're all Yale peoples you're gonna go to Yale too you know like and they donate parents donate they put tons of money in and then their kids get in because of that and it's really really a networking thing right because it's like future CEOs future whatever you're gonna go there you're gonna rub shoulder to you though because they admit like 10 000 or 20 000 people a year like I just I'm thinking maybe hundreds of people might have that yeah but there's probably 10 000 people that still probably try to get in through 70 white though the ones who are going in through the endowments yeah it's 70 white but then some people say America is 70 white ish so isn't that just a thing that's what's crazy to me is that when you think of the number of like let's just do China just China when you
11:01 think of the people in China that look at sending their kid abroad or like growing up in America with that education and having a goal of getting into ivy league that's already a ████ lot of them and then you take into account Asian American kids that are also on that same track there's a s███████ of those otherwise we wouldn't have coupons that are booming yeah you know what I mean like that is a goal already for just those in general there's not enough spots for them but I thought well so I'm a bit confused because all of these universities I feel like they market so hardcore to foreigners because they get the most money from foreigners because there's like a premium that they have to pay right they have to pay a lot of state or yeah but not only that they also like bring money to the community like they'll build luxury um Apartments just for it being a China tower for all the foreign kids that are
11:51 gonna pay five grand a month for these luxury apartments right and on top of that like it boosts the economy of the area the real estate all that so like I've seen so much more um I guess like marketing going toward foreign students and that's I've seen that outside of the us as well like in the UK and in Canada and all that but doesn't that hurt reputationally to have a ivy league College like the visual image be like hella Asians probably they don't want that yeah because I don't think the ones that I've seen aren't ivy league they're like UCS they're like yeah yeah so like ivy league is probably just that Heritage brand it wouldn't be fascinating if like we could do like a just for one year we see who actually like got into college like based on what they did just the
12:41 number just to see the numbers just to see the statistics actually because when I think of Ivy League I think of boat shoes white kids from the East Coast that like goes to the Hamptons during the during summer with their friends and I feel like they want to preserve that and I think their way of doing that is to be like oh no look now now underprivileged kids can't don't have a chance now and it's like you guys are ████ shut up yeah for the Asians that are getting the shortening of the stick it trickles all the way down exactly so like it's like regular like let's a kid needs like an Asian kid from Arcadia or whatever it needs Harvard grades to get into UCLA and then needs UCLA grades to get into to like UC Riverside right and it's like it so there they have to like crazy over treat over achieve like almost be like ████ NASA genius just to be like an accountant or something
13:32 exactly you know who's actually benefiting the most though from the um the affirmative act uh affirmative actions in the black community or the new uh African immigrants because they're actually the number one uh minority group that's getting into Ivy Leagues they beat Asian oh wow because they even need it because they already come with like highly uh academic minded I think because those those groups they're trying to Target inner cities not new immigrants yeah but then they qualify because now they're African American on paper so then they're taking the place of inner city black when it all gets filed and separated yeah they're like yeah right right right so it's not really helping out like the poor communities and stuff
14:22 like that because you have Highly Educated immigrants coming into the states but then they're like hey we're gonna qualify now under the black category versus like the the the inner city youth who's probably working like super hard to like try and get in or whatever and then I think that's that's where it's kind of like if it's just on Race yeah then and you just need a quota per race I think that's where people get screwed yeah yay more problems we canceled
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