Chinese Diaspora

Patrick Little writes: A WAIS article dealt with women in China becoming a major factor in the engineering sciences.  A former Dean of Admissions at Punahou School in Hawaii was asked what kinds of students were the best candidates for admission to this private institution.  She responded that if it were based purely on academic merit and the capacity to absorb, all of the candidates would be Chinese, moreover, they would be females. 

When we visited China for a month, we came away with the same feeling, that Chinese women are more likely to have a real "feel" for democratization, had far better mastery of English both verbally and comprehension.  When we visited Myanmar, we also found that it was, by and large, the Chinese who would eventually pull that country along, there was already substantial progress being made to that end.

RH:At Stanford, orientals generally top the lists. They don't have to use affirmative action to get ahead, proof that affirmative action is used only by minorities which cannot make it on their own.  Anti-Chinese activities in Southeast Asia are prompted by resentment that they are hardworking and successful.