Legal Commentary

Too Many Asians Hmong Us, Or Not Enough?

I hesitate to get you even more upset than you already are about the blatant ?underrepresentation? of so many groups in so many areas of American life, but you can?t fret about this blight on our democracy as effectively as you should unless you know what I?m about to report to you (based on this report of this report) ? that ?fewer than 0.5% of the total physician population [of California] is of Cambodian, Loatian, Hmong and Samoan descent.?

And this despite the fact that Asian physicians in general are dramatically ?overrepresented? ? ?About 26% are Asian or Pacific Islander, while 11% of the population is Asian/Pacific Islander.?

Clearly, we need a quota on Asians admitted to medical school so that we can more ... , well, other Asians into medical school.

Full post as published by Discriminations on April 10, 2008 (boomark / email).