Re: Centreville
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Date: May 26, 2011 08:45AM
49 Wrote:
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> All I have to say is,
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> Koreans, Koreans everywhere.
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> Almost everywhere.
> I'm one myself.
Nah - Asians, Asians everywhere.
I'm not one but am married to one.
However...
I've been in Sully Station for more than 20 years. That is, I've been here across at LEAST a couple Census takings. According to some stats just reported about today, the Asian population of Centreville has increased by 60% since 2000 (now stands at 26% if my memory is serving me well today).
Well...looking around at my neighbors there sure are what I would have thought was a high percentage of Asians but, actually, that percent seems to be pretty much static in my little chunk of neighborhood - it's "always" been integrated with a relatively-large percent of Asians.
So I don't really see "the change".
However, part II...
At the beginning of the school year I went to a middle school orchestra performance.
I was totally floored.
The percent of Asians compared to nonAsians in the orchestra must be approaching 90%. Really totally shocking the NONrepresentation of the school population's percentages.
Which makes me seriously wonder about things like population representation in school's like Thomas Jefferson.
What is culturally WRONG with NONAsian populations that their percent representation in orchestra and, by extrapolation, at school's like TJ is well below the general population percent representation?
I can only hope school's like TJ continue to select students due to ability rather than the False Science of "race".
But I have to wonder how we can get those OTHER "races" (actually cultures) to get their acts together and get properly represented.