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Different race happen to be correlated with different cultural values.

One particular cultural value is caring a whole lot about education and prestigious degrees (see the test prep industry in most of asia).

I have no problem with people who value education getting an edge in admissions. So even in a race-blind world, I am okay with outcomes not matching population statistics. Because in a world where you're solely judged based on your values that's exactly what you'd see.

But what's happening is that two different people can both adopt this same "education" value and have different outcome because of their race. The opportunities are not equal, not for blacks, not for asians.




> Different race happen to be correlated with different cultural values.

Citation?




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