anti_dan
1d ago
This feels like more of a dumb question but why did we have any significant amount of affirmative action for Hispanics in the US?
Because Affirmative Action is about satisfying a perceived aesthetic. Colleges thought diversity in line with population percentages was aesthetically a good, so they pursued it, and really didn't care if anyone was "cheating" or they weren't actually achieving their perfect brochures IRL on campus. They wanted the stats to look like their perception.
I don't think there really is much more to it. If there was we would have seen much more sophisticated systems compared to just giving free points (which were explicit in the UMichigan case in the early 2000s, and only since have become hidden, but with the same results). Its not like ADOS were getting lots of points while Nigerian sons of oligarchs were not, or Mexican daughters of construction workers were getting more points that the grandson of Peronist leadership. Its just all paper aesthetics, with a bit of an extra f-you thrown in for white rural and urban males.
Its a supply demand things currently. The demand is high because they see the large Hispanic % on the census. But most of those are pretty crappy. So they give big bonuses
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