Is Vietnamese a minority in America? Is affirmative action in favor of Vietnamese Americans?

Answer 1

Answer to first question: it depends on what setting you're talking about. On the national level, yes Vietnamese are a minority, but in particular cities like Westminster, CA, Vietnamese are close to being a majority.

Answer to second question: again, it depends on which affirmative action program you're talking about, since they're not all the same. Some affirmative action programs include Vietnamese Americans as a targeted group while others exclude them (and most other Asian ethnic groups).

Answer 2

Vietnamese, if I am not mistaken would be a protected minority, falling under the category of Asian. Affirmative action is the biggest contradiction ever, and is something that shouldn't be used by any "equal opportunity employer". It may give you, if you are Vietnamese, an advantage regardless of your experiences, but for society, I am not sure if we want to add this "positive and constructive racism" to our broad slew of issues.

Answer 3

Vietnamese would fall under the broad category of Asian. In some cases they would be considered a protected minority.

Answer 4

Affirmative action is just another form of racism.

It's racism to protect against racism.

But the short answer I believe is: Yes

Answer 5

Vietnamese is just an another asian ethnic group being discriminated against. Affirmative action doesn't extend out to asian because they are classified as "model minority".


http://www.asian-nation.org/model-minority.shtml

Answer 6

yes and yes