1/Whites have many grievances when poorly performing minorities move in, but there is less discussion about the effects of model minorities. @herandrews posted some excepts from this book about white to Asian demographic change which lead me to read it. amazon.com/Trespassers-As…
2/ The book tracks the story of Fremont CA, a town in the SF Bay Area, that very rapidly transformed from White to Asian:
3/Fremont was seen as a place where Asians could combine the best of Asia and America rather than simply recreating Asia:
4/ One Asian describe growing up there while it was still white, and eating pizza and meatloaf. In a few decades the shoe would be on the other foot:
5/ Early Silicon Valley was very white:
6/ The creation of H1B visas and the dotcom boom brought many immigrants to the area:
7/ One large change was the change in school environment. The book focuses on Mission San Jose High School which went from nearly 80% white in the late 80s to less than 5% white now: schooldigger.com/go/CA/schools/…
8/ Asian prefer an intense math and science education, while whites wanted a less competitive more balanced education:
9/ In the 80s there were so many blond haired blue eyed kids, it was commonly referred to as little Scandinavia:
10/ The current demographics of the school preferred flashier cars:
11/ Many people want to go to the school but don't live within the boundaries. 34% of students said they knew someone who attended illegally:
12/ Many white families in the area felt that the community was getting worse as the area was getting more expensive:
13/ The previous Mission San Jose was a wild party school, with a top ranked football team. These days priorities have shifted:
14/ Many of the students are stressed out. One student passed out from stress after he got a B:
15/ Most of the students thought that race played an important role in social relations at the school. Indians were sometimes stereotyped as more white. Genetic similarity theory?
16/ One white girl in the student newspaper wrote that she was part of the new oppressed minority:
17/Many white families were pretty explicitly they were moving to white areas in the north so their kids could go to whiter schools:
18/ Many Asians also left because they wanted to send their kids to school at a more normal American high school:
19/Another point of contention was the Asian malls that were popping up. This passage describes a typical Asian mall:
20/ Many non Asians object to these malls as exclusionary:
21/ The more white city leadership was instead trying to attract major chains and fancy restaurants:
22/ City leadership worried that one reason they were unable to attract these businesses is because they didn't they could sell well to Asians:
23/ Asians claimed that they weren't the prime customers for those businesses, and the city officials were trying to cater to white professionals and not the local community:
24/ Another community conflict that broke down on racial lines was over whether people could rebuild their older ranch house to larger mcmansion style houses:
25/ White people saw these new large house as obscene displays of wealth. Asians wanted large homes to house their families
26/ Asian people prefer more modern homes because, they don't like doing maintenance
27/ Ironically, the larger homes that Asians prefer are based on European aesthetics:
28/Another point of contention was privacy issues:
29/ The Asians who were rebuilding their homes seemed to value being outside less than the current white residents:
30/ Seems to confirm what AE said about whites being most interested in the outdoors: unz.com/anepigone/cons…
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