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1. If a random guy and you were being threatened, and that guy yelled back or even used violence to protect you, would that turn you off? Would you distrust him? Would it make you feel uncomfortable? Or would that make you feel grateful?
2. What do you think of a guy who can play a musical instrument? What do you think of a guy who can draw? And what do you think of a guy who can dance?
3. How would you feel if your boyfriend revealed himself to be wealthy months after you two began to date? Would you think he was being humble, or would you think he was being dishonest?
4. What do you think of a tall guy? Would you go out with a guy who's 5 years younger than you? Would you go out with a guy who's 10 years older than you?
5. Who's your favourite male movie character? Who's your favourite female movie character?
6. Who's your favourite stand-up comedian?
7. What was your most scariest experience?
8. What was your happiest moment?
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False. I'm not an it.
The next person will watch the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-admits-record-number-asian-225448361.html
QuoteHarvard admits record number of Asian American students while Black and Latino admissions drop
NBC NEWS
Sakshi Venkatraman
Wed, April 5, 2023 at 7:54 AM GMT+9
Harvard University admitted a record number of Asian American students to its class of 2027, a move experts are wary of celebrating given the drop in admissions of most other minority groups. It comes as the Supreme Court continues deliberations on a lawsuit brought against Harvard by a right-wing group(?) that alleges race-conscious admissions discriminate against white and Asian students.
In a breakdown of the incoming class released by the university last week, Harvard revealed that 29.9% of admitted applicants are Asian American. It’s a 2.1% jump from last year’s number.
“It’s been part of a long-term trend,” admissions Dean William R. Fitzsimmons told The Harvard Crimson. “The percentages have been going up steadily. It’s not a surprise.”
There are a couple of possible reasons for this, said Julie Park, an associate professor at the University of Maryland who studies racial equity in high education. One could be an increase in Asian American legacy admits, which favors children of Harvard alumni in the admissions process. It also coincides with a population growth of Asian American young adults and high school graduates in the U.S. generally.
“Race-conscious admissions can be very dynamic and institution-specific,” she told NBC News. “Under race-conscious admissions, Harvard has a very sizable Asian American class. … It’s just a natural byproduct that you’re just going to numerically have at Harvard, unless they step away from legacy admissions, which I actually think they should.”
Harvard did not respond to multiple requests from NBC News for comment.
The Supreme Court is currently preparing a decision on Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a lawsuit that alleges the Ivy League university‘s race-conscious admissions process discriminates against Asian applicants.
After the court heard the case in October, advocates fear the conservative majority might mean the end of affirmative action. Students of color at both Harvard and the University of North Carolina, also being sued by Students for Fair Admissions, have spent months protesting and speaking out in favor of race-conscious admissions.
Losing that battle could put lower-income Asian American and Pacific Islander applicants at a disadvantage, Park said, as well as stunting students’ diverse educational experience.
“We know from research that low-income Asian American students actually do receive a boost under these policies,” she said. “They pay attention to not just race, but also ethnicity, to subgroups that have been historically underserved in education, like Southeast Asian Americans and the Pacific Islander community.”
What concerns experts is that, for the second year in a row at Harvard, Black and Latino admits dropped, comprising 15.3% and 11.3% respectively. Native Hawaiian and Native American admits are also down from last year, sitting at 0.5% and 2% respectively.
“While you have seen growth in the Asian American high school graduate population, it is nothing compared to the growth in the Latinx population,” she said. “So it’s really concerning and illuminating that you’re not seeing that similar uptick in admitted students among the Black and Latinx students. … That disparity points to some issues.”
Without a clear breakdown of application data, it’s hard to know why this might be the case, said Wil Del Pilar, senior vice president of The Education Trust, an organization working to fill gaps in educational inequity.
But threats to affirmative action have a chilling effect — not only on applications by students of color, but on outreach efforts from universities too.
“It can have a very detrimental effect on the students who get served and the services that are provided to them,” he said. “When you put it in conjunction with all of the anti-DEI, anti-critical race theory legislation that’s passing at the state level, I think it creates these conditions that can have a huge impact on enrollment.”
Even ongoing lawsuits or proposed bills can have a regressive effect, with institutions preemptively taking money out of diversity efforts, recruitment or support structures.
“The decision may come out and say you can’t use race as a factor in admissions,” he said. “So institutional actors may say, ‘OK, you can’t use race as a factor in awarding financial aid, or in creating student support groups or in targeting enrollment, or in targeting efforts at certain groups.”
Park also cited the university’s high tuition and its emphasis on matriculating athletes, which she says tends to favor white recruits.
“They have these policies that are trying to facilitate equity, but they also have these policies that undermine equity,” she said. “So, you know, I think they really need to take a hard look in the mirror.”
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https://www.yahoo.com/gma/justices-aim-race-conscious-college-120900034.html
QuoteJustices to take aim at race-conscious college admissions in affirmative action cases
DEVIN DWYER and SARAH HERNDON
In her 2003 opinion upholding affirmative action in higher education, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor famously predicted that in 25 years "the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary" in America.
Next week, years after that milestone and with lingering gaps in minority college acceptance and achievement, a new group of justices will decide whether to overrule O'Connor – and more than 40 years of precedent – to declare that admissions policies must be race-blind.
"That would be a sea change in American law with huge implications across society," said Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.
In a pair of oral arguments Monday, the justices will take up race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University, the nation's oldest private college, and the University of North Carolina, the nation's oldest public university.
It is the first test for affirmative action before the current court with its six-justice conservative majority and three justices of color, including the first-ever Black woman justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
"I think we have to be realistic in that this is a very conservative Supreme Court," said David Lewis, a Harvard University junior and member of the school's Black Students Association. "But this issue has been tried over and over again at the court, and the precedent has still been upheld."
Students for Fair Admissions, a conservative and multiracial coalition of 22,000 students and parents, sued the schools in 2014 alleging intentional discrimination toward Asian American applicants in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment..........
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I remember many years ago when there was an article that Asians would need to score much higher than the other students in the SAT in order to enter an Ivy League university. I warned my sister and my friends about this. At that time, there were many Asians in these Ivy League universities. They didn't think it would become a problem when they'd have children. When I have kids, this would be one of the reasons why I'd raise them outside the US. Fortunately, the discrimination has been debated in the Senate Judiciary Committee recently. This has raised my hope for education in the US a bit.
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On 2/26/2022 at 7:38 PM, Erifa Ole said:
I want to visit South Korea and Japan. These are my favorite countries and I desire I'll visit them soon. I'm now watching .On electric smoker and I see such a lot of planes arrive at these nations.
You're watching on electric smoker? Is that a website?
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False. I haven't worn jeans in a long time.
The next person lives in a country that's not targeted by nukes.
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True. I like the pinkish red uniform of the South Korean football/soccer team.
The next person likes to read fantasy novels.
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I gained 2 kg / 4 lbs in the summer of 2020. Now I actually weigh less than I did in 2019 thanks to exercise and avoiding high sugar snacks.
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The next person can do 50 sit-ups.
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The Omicron infection rate in South Africa has gone down drastically. This could be a good sign to the other countries that are experiencing increased infection rates due to this new variant.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-africa/
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7 hours ago, Gumiho said:
Thank you @singlebilingual btw are you still single? Hahaha
I am from Indonesia. Covid19 hittting hard in our capital city where one of my friend in Jakarta passed away with his wife and left their 2 little children alone
In the city where I live, covid19 was hitting hard but it becomes more condusive now. Perhaps because of this is a small city and our island is far away from our capital city.
In my office we also lost one of our employee because of covid19 but it was because of he has diabetes.
As for me, I am good now. Already completed my covid19 vaccine. Even though it’s just Sinovac. My doctor offered me to take Moderna but I was scared to get sick because of I must to taking care of my babies so I only choose Sinovac.
I am in silence in Soompi because of I was busy with Christmas things in the reality hahaha. Baking cakes for Christmas hampers for my friends. And today I back to office. My maternity leave ends officially on December 28th. And I am going to be busy for New year things too. Plus 1 February will be Chinese New year too and I must to bake something for Chinese New years hampers too. And after that will be Valentine’s day and it’s my bff birthday and I am going to bake something too. LOL
Merry Christmas and have a happy holidays @singlebilingual I wish you would not stay single in 2022 ^_*
P.S I think I am going to not be very active on Soompi because of many things should be handled in the reality. I have to stop playing around and must to do things seriously in life hahaha. Example: making hampers <3 but I am active on fb or IG because of these are my places for writing and expressing my thoughts also the places to leave memories where my babies could see or read about their mommy later.
I was single when I made that name. Not now. ^^
I'm very sad at what Indonesia is going through. Fortunately, you didn't get infected.
There seems to be good news about the pandemic. So far, it seems that the symptoms from the Omicron variant are weak according to the South African doctors. I heard that this is the sign of the coming end of the pandemic.
I think your kids would connect with you more if they realize that you aren't just conservative and strict(?). When I saw my parents' childhood and teenage photos for the first time, I realized that we really weren't that different. I started to understand them better. And I began to talk to them more. I learned from their successes, and I avoided making the mistakes that they made. Maybe you're concerned that your kids would stop taking you seriously if they see your posts here. I don't have kids and I don't know what it's like to raise them. I'm not sure how I would've reacted if I saw my parents' old photos when I was a kid.
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On 11/23/2021 at 11:01 PM, Gumiho said:
7 weeks post partum and yesterday I get 1st dose of Sinovac.
Side effects that I feel are:
1. Feeling sleepy the whole day. Like it is very difficult for me to open my eyes. All I want to do is just sleep.
2. I am a breastfeeding mom now and my breast hurt since this morning until now.
3. Fever comes and goes since last night
I saw your post at the True or False section. I'm glad to see that you're doing well now. But judging from your story about your Facebook and your office, it seems that your country got hit hard by the pandemic. In which country do you live in? I have friends in various countries, and it worries me that a lot of them have suddenly become silent since last year March. They used to be very active on the internet. I'm afraid that it's either because of the virus or the economy. Outside the internet, I know some people who lost their jobs or their businesses. And a lot of the people around me are losing hope. They think this pandemic will never end. Since last year February, I suspected that this could last a few years like the one that began in 1918 did. But now I'm worried that this pandemic could last even longer. The charts are very disturbing. Many countries are experiencing more additional infections than last year.
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True. We deserve it.
Strangers tend to think the next person is at least ten years younger than the actual age.
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On 12/5/2021 at 12:29 AM, LeftCoastOppa said:
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The Next Person is now shopping for one of these!
False. They don't sell those here. And international mail is very slow now.
The next person is tired of watching the same topics on YouTube, and is trying to think of a new word to search.
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On 10/23/2021 at 12:48 PM, crystaltears said:
False (I got a haircut last month)
The next person lost weight during summer
False, my weight didn't change. If it did, then it's hardly noticeable.
The next person never experienced a full lockdown.
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I used to skate at Lotte World in Seoul.
The ice rink in her video is the one in Lotte World.
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False. I never ate that, but it sounds delicious.
The next person feels nostalgic when listening to his song:
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It seems that this will affect a large part of the US.
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