Following the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, Asian American low-income and community college students say they're contending with a range of emotions, from concern to relief, but all say they're uncertain of what the future will look like.
Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagAngelynn Jimenez, 18, a Filipina American who attends community college in Chicago, said she was concerned about the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action because she’s seen how beneficial programs for socioeconomically-diverse students truly are.
The level of education across the diaspora is diverse. Southeast Asian Americans, for example, contend with poverty and subsequently lower rates of educational attainment largely as a result of their experiences as refugees, said Kham Moua, national deputy director of the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center.that 29% of Vietnamese, 18% of Laotian and 16% of Cambodian American adults have bachelor’s degrees or higher, compared to 54% of Asian Americans overall.
“For Southeast Asian students, a lot of the conversation around access is just making sure that they’re even able to have the resources to attend any sort of university,” he said. Still, some low-income students have had their concerns about the admissions policy. Emily Fu, 19, a Chinese American freshman at East Los Angeles College, said she opposes affirmative action. Fu, who’s from a low-income household, said she isn’t confident that admissions officers would have the ability to see Asian American applicants as individuals, obscuring the qualities that make them qualified.
“The education debate should not be primarily focused on privates,” she said. “It definitely hurts lower-income Asians because they don’t have the same resources, access and education.”Champ Liudi, 19, who also attends ELAC, similarly opposed affirmative action policies. Liudi, an Indonesian American freshman who’s also from a low-income family, said he feels that affirmative action policies could lead to “generalizing” of Asian Americans.
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