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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Diversity Clippings 7/22/96 – 8/2/96 Compiled by Arthur Hu Ask me if you need help finding the original files and articles.  If you liked something from here, let me know with an email so I’ll keep putting these together. Headlines: 1. Asians big at Schwab * 2. Asians 4 times more likely to be born blind * 3. Does availability of guns or percentage of black population have more effect on city crime rates? 4. Rich white enclave in DC 5. Asia faces "greatest" AIDS threat, yet has least AIDS 6.  DOES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MINORITY DOCTORS OR JUST PROMOTE THEM INTO FANCIER SCHOOLS? 7. Asians are racially superior in schools – because they work harder and more seriously. 8. Boston Chinatown Crime Boss convicted 9. Boston cadet appointments bypass 50% minority hiring rule for police 10. Chinese are only 5% of SSI recipients, most "welfare" use is elderly and refugees. 11. Asian buddhists transition to Christian churches without renouning their old religion.  12. U Massachusetts Amhert creates a full time "Jewish" position for awareness and to combat antisemitism 13. Asian hotel owners object to "American owned" signs by competitors. 14. Program succeeds in training welfare mothers into paid community health care workers. 15. Albert Shanker claims Catholic schools have test scores which are no better than for other comparable students.  16. Korean Grocer gets nailed for helping black kids 17. Gay depends on definition 18. Filipino maid highlights exploitation of women migrants 19. Oakland Asians and Hispanics say contracts favor whites and blacks only. 20. David Wang is senior VP of Applied Materials, the nation’s largest supplier of semiconductor equipment. 21. Single parent births are 50% in New York City, 66.5 in the Bronx. 22. Silicon Valley has high wage increases across all income levels despite or because of immigrants and high education. 23. Women spend more time home than men (!) 31. Poverty does not explain underperformance of inner city poor. 32. Japanese Truancy only 1 in 70 junior high, 1 in 500 primary schol 33. Chinese diplomat dies, leaves 32 descendents in America who earned 22 degrees. investors Bloomberg Business News Asians trade more often, 5 times more likely to be "active", generate 20% more commision revenue per trade. 15% have over $100,000 in assets vs. 9% of overall base, and twice the assets on deposit vs other customers. Only 1% use asian language services. Asian customer base and assets growing 50% annually compared to 13% overall. Associated Press. Blind Babies Foundation of 971 babies born between 1980 and 1995, based in San Francisco: Cases%   W50  B9   H20  A8 Pop%     W70  B12  H12  A3 Rate   .71   .75  1.66 2.66 Index  W1.00 B-1.05 H-2.33 A-3.75 Asians are nearly 4 times more likely to be born blind than whites, more than any other race. Hispanics are about 2 times. Blacks usually fare worst on most health measures, but come out about the same as whites when it comes to birth blindness. 3. clip961racegun.htm July 25, 1996 Close-up: NRA theorist tries to link racial factor to homicides by Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post. NRA critic points out that if you compare Seattle and Vancouver, and correct for race, rates of gun violence are comparable, but Seattle has more blacks. Middle class whites have more access to guns, yet lower gun death rates. (This also applies to quality of schools – districts which vary widely may actually be similar if race is compensated for) Criticized as a "genetic" theory. 4. clip961whitedc.htm NYT 7/26/96 D.C.’s Wealthy ‘Other Half’ Is Feeling the Pinch, Too. Ward 3 is 88 percent white, Ward 8, which is 91 percent black. 60% of Ward 3 have college degrees vs. 10% in Ward 8.  Ward 8 has lots of upper class shopping, with median incomes 60 percent higher than the city’s average, and more than twice the $21,312 median in Ward 8, which has but one full-size supermarket of its own for close to the same number of people.  97 percent of Ward 3 single-family dwellings assessed at more than $200,000, and only 1 percent of the ward’s houses being subsidized. In Ward 8, east of the Anacostia River, 23 percent of housing is publicly subsidized. Only one killing a year in a city where 400 a year are killed. 5. c:doc966asiawors.txt "Anger dominates start of AIDS conference" Seattle Times July 8, 1996 p. A4 "Asia is facing the most serious epidemic" HIV infections have doubled since 1992 to 3 million. Comment – the lowest rates of AIDS are found in Asian and communist nations. Only 6% of AIDS cases are in Asia, the lowest rate of any continent, 30 times lower per capita than the Americas. WHO 1995 figures (latest) New AIDS cases 1994, reported by 1995, ranked by relative incidence / population Year                 Cases  Index Africa                 20.2%1.28 America                58.4%1.00 Oceania                 0.2%-2.50 TOTALS                100.0%-3.22 Europe                 14.6%-5.32 Asia                    6.7%-28.73 AIDS is 28 TIMES less prevalent in Asia than the Americas. 6. DOES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MINORITY DOCTORS OR JUST PROMOTE THEM INTO FANCIER SCHOOLS? doctors less likely to treat blacks, Latinos; medical school affirmative action helps, study says. New York foundation and Stanford University study found that minority doctors are more likely to serve minority populations. Comment – the idea is that affirmative action helps increase the number of minority doctors. However the type of affirmative action practiced by the top medical schools generally involves admitting as many students who would otherwise still be accepted by lesser schools up to some arbitrary level approximating the national population of 12% black and 9+% Hispanic regardless of any differences in the quality of the applicant pools. It does not increase numbers, but only redistributes them into schools with fancier reputations. 7. Asians are racially superior in schools – because they work harder and more seriously. San Jose Mercury News Joanne Jacobs: Set the standard high Parents and schools must expect the highest academic performance from students. Writes about “Beyond the Classroom,” by Laurence Steinberg, based on a three-year study of 20,000 California and Wisconsin high school students. Blacks and Hispanic parents expected above a D, earn C’s, whites above a C, earn B’s, Asians were only satisfied with A- or better, and over half had A averages but only 10% had C or worse. Asians studied twice as long as other students “Asian students perform better in school because they work harder, try harder and are more invested in achievement,” writes Steinberg. Black and Latino peer groups discouraged academic achievement, "acting white" is looked down upon. Despite traditional view of unhealthy nature of overachievers, the Asian students had the lowest rates of depression, headaches, drug and alcohol use, etc. 8. Boston Chinatown Crime Boss convicted clip961fallgang.txt Boston Globe Fall of Leader, Gang Leaves a Power Void in Asian Underworld By Judy Rakowsky, 07/28/96     Six years have passed since the Ping On gang extorted money from the     gambling dens and restaurants of Chinatown, but last week its 12-year     reign officially ended with the conviction of crime boss Stephen Tse. 9. Boston cadet appointments bypass 50% minority hiring rule for police clip961bostcadt.txt Boston Globe Police cadet system failing minorities By Geeta Anand and Matthew Brelis, Globe Staff, 07/25/96 A cadet system which bypasses decree rule of 50% minority hires to increase minorities appears to favor whites in appointments. 10. Chinese are only 5% of SSI recipients, most "welfare" use is elderly and refugees. clip961fixtest.txt http://www.urban.org/testimon/fixtest.htm The Use of SSI and Other Welfare Programs by Immigrants Testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration February 6, 1996 Michael Fix, Jeffrey S. Passel, and Wendy Zimmermann The Urban Institute Washington, D.C.  Only 10% of naturalized citizens live in poverty vs 29% of non-citizen immigrants. Elder immigrants are 28% of SSI recipients 65 older, but only 9% of the population, refugees are 13.1% welfare vs. 5.8% for all immigrants. Working age welfare is about the same, 5.1 vs. 5.3% Immigrants who are poor only use welfare at 16% vs 25% of poor natives. SSI use is only 3% of the foreign-born population vs. 2% of the native. SSI use is about the same for those around 20 years. 39% of those with no social security receive SSI. Chinese recipients, the subject unearthed by Norm Matloff are only 5% of

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Diversity Clippings 7/22/96 – 8/2/96 Compiled by Arthur Hu Ask me if you need help finding the original files and articles.  If you liked something from here, let me know with an email so I’ll keep putting these together. Headlines: 1. Asians big at Schwab * 2. Asians 4 times more likely to be born blind * 3. Does availability of guns or percentage of black population have more effect on city crime rates? 4. Rich white enclave in DC 5. Asia faces "greatest" AIDS threat, yet has least AIDS 6.  DOES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MINORITY DOCTORS OR JUST PROMOTE THEM INTO FANCIER SCHOOLS? 7. Asians are racially superior in schools – because they work harder and more seriously. 8. Boston Chinatown Crime Boss convicted 9. Boston cadet appointments bypass 50% minority hiring rule for police 10. Chinese are only 5% of SSI recipients, most "welfare" use is elderly and refugees. 11. Asian buddhists transition to Christian churches without renouning their old religion.  12. U Massachusetts Amhert creates a full time "Jewish" position for awareness and to combat antisemitism 13. Asian hotel owners object to "American owned" signs by competitors. 14. Program succeeds in training welfare mothers into paid community health care workers. 15. Albert Shanker claims Catholic schools have test scores which are no better than for other comparable students.  16. Korean Grocer gets nailed for helping black kids 17. Gay depends on definition 18. Filipino maid highlights exploitation of women migrants 19. Oakland Asians and Hispanics say contracts favor whites and blacks only. 20. David Wang is senior VP of Applied Materials, the nation’s largest supplier of semiconductor equipment. 21. Single parent births are 50% in New York City, 66.5 in the Bronx. 22. Silicon Valley has high wage increases across all income levels despite or because of immigrants and high education. 23. Women spend more time home than men (!) 31. Poverty does not explain underperformance of inner city poor. 32. Japanese Truancy only 1 in 70 junior high, 1 in 500 primary schol 33. Chinese diplomat dies, leaves 32 descendents in America who earned 22 degrees. investors Bloomberg Business News Asians trade more often, 5 times more likely to be "active", generate 20% more commision revenue per trade. 15% have over $100,000 in assets vs. 9% of overall base, and twice the assets on deposit vs other customers. Only 1% use asian language services. Asian customer base and assets growing 50% annually compared to 13% overall. Associated Press. Blind Babies Foundation of 971 babies born between 1980 and 1995, based in San Francisco: Cases%   W50  B9   H20  A8 Pop%     W70  B12  H12  A3 Rate   .71   .75  1.66 2.66 Index  W1.00 B-1.05 H-2.33 A-3.75 Asians are nearly 4 times more likely to be born blind than whites, more than any other race. Hispanics are about 2 times. Blacks usually fare worst on most health measures, but come out about the same as whites when it comes to birth blindness. 3. clip961racegun.htm July 25, 1996 Close-up: NRA theorist tries to link racial factor to homicides by Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post. NRA critic points out that if you compare Seattle and Vancouver, and correct for race, rates of gun violence are comparable, but Seattle has more blacks. Middle class whites have more access to guns, yet lower gun death rates. (This also applies to quality of schools – districts which vary widely may actually be similar if race is compensated for) Criticized as a "genetic" theory. 4. clip961whitedc.htm NYT 7/26/96 D.C.’s Wealthy ‘Other Half’ Is Feeling the Pinch, Too. Ward 3 is 88 percent white, Ward 8, which is 91 percent black. 60% of Ward 3 have college degrees vs. 10% in Ward 8.  Ward 8 has lots of upper class shopping, with median incomes 60 percent higher than the city’s average, and more than twice the $21,312 median in Ward 8, which has but one full-size supermarket of its own for close to the same number of people.  97 percent of Ward 3 single-family dwellings assessed at more than $200,000, and only 1 percent of the ward’s houses being subsidized. In Ward 8, east of the Anacostia River, 23 percent of housing is publicly subsidized. Only one killing a year in a city where 400 a year are killed. 5. c:doc966asiawors.txt "Anger dominates start of AIDS conference" Seattle Times July 8, 1996 p. A4 "Asia is facing the most serious epidemic" HIV infections have doubled since 1992 to 3 million. Comment – the lowest rates of AIDS are found in Asian and communist nations. Only 6% of AIDS cases are in Asia, the lowest rate of any continent, 30 times lower per capita than the Americas. WHO 1995 figures (latest) New AIDS cases 1994, reported by 1995, ranked by relative incidence / population Year                 Cases  Index Africa                 20.2%1.28 America                58.4%1.00 Oceania                 0.2%-2.50 TOTALS                100.0%-3.22 Europe                 14.6%-5.32 Asia                    6.7%-28.73 AIDS is 28 TIMES less prevalent in Asia than the Americas. 6. DOES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MINORITY DOCTORS OR JUST PROMOTE THEM INTO FANCIER SCHOOLS? doctors less likely to treat blacks, Latinos; medical school affirmative action helps, study says. New York foundation and Stanford University study found that minority doctors are more likely to serve minority populations. Comment – the idea is that affirmative action helps increase the number of minority doctors. However the type of affirmative action practiced by the top medical schools generally involves admitting as many students who would otherwise still be accepted by lesser schools up to some arbitrary level approximating the national population of 12% black and 9+% Hispanic regardless of any differences in the quality of the applicant pools. It does not increase numbers, but only redistributes them into schools with fancier reputations. 7. Asians are racially superior in schools – because they work harder and more seriously. San Jose Mercury News Joanne Jacobs: Set the standard high Parents and schools must expect the highest academic performance from students. Writes about “Beyond the Classroom,” by Laurence Steinberg, based on a three-year study of 20,000 California and Wisconsin high school students. Blacks and Hispanic parents expected above a D, earn C’s, whites above a C, earn B’s, Asians were only satisfied with A- or better, and over half had A averages but only 10% had C or worse. Asians studied twice as long as other students “Asian students perform better in school because they work harder, try harder and are more invested in achievement,” writes Steinberg. Black and Latino peer groups discouraged academic achievement, "acting white" is looked down upon. Despite traditional view of unhealthy nature of overachievers, the Asian students had the lowest rates of depression, headaches, drug and alcohol use, etc. 8. Boston Chinatown Crime Boss convicted clip961fallgang.txt Boston Globe Fall of Leader, Gang Leaves a Power Void in Asian Underworld By Judy Rakowsky, 07/28/96      Six years have passed since the Ping On gang extorted money from the      gambling dens and restaurants of Chinatown, but last week its 12-year      reign officially ended with the conviction of crime boss Stephen Tse. 9. Boston cadet appointments bypass 50% minority hiring rule for police clip961bostcadt.txt Boston Globe Police cadet system failing minorities By Geeta Anand and Matthew Brelis, Globe Staff, 07/25/96 A cadet system which bypasses decree rule of 50% minority hires to increase minorities appears to favor whites in appointments. 10. Chinese are only 5% of SSI recipients, most "welfare" use is elderly and refugees. clip961fixtest.txt http://www.urban.org/testimon/fixtest.htm The Use of SSI and Other Welfare Programs by Immigrants Testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration February 6, 1996 Michael Fix, Jeffrey S. Passel, and Wendy Zimmermann The Urban Institute Washington, D.C.  Only 10% of naturalized citizens live in poverty vs 29% of non-citizen immigrants. Elder immigrants are 28% of SSI recipients 65 older, but only 9% of the population, refugees are 13.1% welfare vs. 5.8% for all immigrants. Working age welfare is about the same, 5.1 vs. 5.3% Immigrants who are poor only use welfare at 16% vs 25% of poor natives. SSI use is only 3% of the foreign-born population vs. 2% of the native. SSI use is about the same for those around 20 years. 39% of those with no social security receive SSI. Chinese recipients, the subject unearthed by Norm Matloff are only 5% of beneficiaries nationwide. 11. Asian buddhists transition to Christian churches without renouning their old religion. … read more »

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