Speaking of Asian Americans...

[JailBush]

Have you noticed that, even though Asians are stereotyped as academic overachievers, there are virtually no Asian American superstars in education? The U.S. Secretary of Education is a token black. The Seattle School District's administration is black and white, with little room for Asians.

I don't use the term "token black" to as an anti-African American epithet. The classic term is "Uncle Tom" - a person who is willingly used as a tool by another race. The irony is that no one is hurt more by derelict black school officials in Seattle than the black community, to cite one example.

To put it another way, the Seattle School District is run by the white Seattle Chamber of Commerce and tyrannized by a clique of Uncle Toms teachers have long privately described as the "Black Mafia," while King County Democrats and the Green Party of Seattle politely look the other way. I could tell you some amazing stories about anti-Asian persecution in our public schools.

[Doomsayer13]

1. Perhaps there's a different reason for that

Asians who attain achedemic excellent rarely go onto actual jobs in the educational feild. There are plenty of Asian scientists, and when Asians hold government positions it usually has to do with science or commerce.

[NewJeffCT]

5. I think it's because

Asians (esp. from China & India, and other countries there as well)see themselves as different than the stereotypical "succesful American" and figure that since they look different, the way for their children to get ahead is to push them to excel academically, so their children will be in the best position to become engineers, doctors, etc. And, then the children of these engineers, doctors, etc will be more accepted by American society. That said, I think once they get to the 3rd or 4th generation of Asians in America, you will see Asians become more active in politics & government in general.

[La_Serpiente]

2. That's a good question

And I have no idea as to why that is. In Hawaii at least, many of the teachers are Asian-American. I don't know hot it is on the Continental US though.

[Kinkistyle]

3. Low population + latecomers

The Asian population is actually relatively small. Add to the fact that Asians as an immigrant group are relatively new. There are quite few native-born Asian-Americans in the Baby Boomer generation, but if you look at my generation, "Generation X", there are many native English speaking Asians who grew up and were educated in the U.S. In other words, we should be seeing more and more Asians participating in politics and public service in the coming future. I have no doubt that in the next 10-15 years there will be a good representation of Asian-Americans working at the top levels of the government.

[Name removed]

4. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.