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This is why I don’t give a shit about Ivy League schools discriminating against students in affirmative action cases. These types of articles are always written by the alumni of demonic nepotistic universities. The number of graduates who actually do good in this world are so minuscule that it’s not worth getting mad about. Ivy League students and students of other elite schools deserve to be discriminated no matter what the fuck background they are because they will end up writing garbage like this, if they haven’t went in to build bombs and suck Kissinger’s feet already.
Also I remember reading somewhere that mandarin is incredibly difficult to learn for English speakers, and the military and intelligence community have a shortage of fluent people who can teach others or translate.
There's plenty of Chinese Americans who speak Mandarin fluently. The problem is that the intelligence community doesn't want to hire them due to sinophobia. They want someone who is an adult, has a history of hating China, yet is devoted enough to learn the language through years of study. Unsurprisingly, there aren't many.
There are many Chinese immigrants/Chinese Americans who hate China. But in my experience, the US doesn’t trust immigrants unless it’s a Vietnam/Cuba type situation, but Chinese people haven’t been elevated to the level of prestige compared to Cuban and Vietnamese dissidents