Friday, May 30, 2014

The New White

Blogger Eugene Volokh makes the claim that the meanings of "white" and "minority" have changed. See his column in The Washington Post. As Volokh notes, In many quarters, Asians are now "white."
“White” has stopped meaning Caucasian, imprecise as this term has always been, and has started to mean “those racial groups that have made it.” “Minority” has started to mean “those racial groups that have not yet made it.”
It's not Politically Correct to observe that Asians' achievement-oriented culture has enabled most to succeed in our supposedly "racist" society. Accurate? Yes. PC? No.