I couldn’t agree more, minorities should rise on their own, but it is very difficult if a small clique has a strong hold on the most powerful positions using collective resources to give strong preference in training, grooming and investing to their own. While this fairly small minority might actually have been hurt in the past from this exact issue and has successfully conquered a well deserving a seat on the table, today it seems it wants all the seats on it. It ends up dictating policy on behalf of the whole country and a mirroring clique on the private side (many switch sides at some point) has benefited tremendously from the policies this group has put in place. To be clear, it is not as if this group has absolute control over everything, but for a meager two percent of the population it seems to be amazingly influential.
If you extend the analysis to other areas of policy or levels of government, this group also appears to have completely disproportional power and influence. When I count the number of Assemblymen and Senators in such group, I find it astonishing the huge over representation, especially in the Senate. Again, if say Chinese Americans had even close to such disproportional clout, this wouldn’t go unnoticed especially if they had a powerful lobby in DC and were allowed to dictate American policy towards China, where there is an obvious huge potential for conflicts of interests. So I am left wondering for example if the unbelievable amounts of our tax dollars we spend on the Middle East (even subsidizing a fairly wealthy country with its own nuclear weapons like Israel and brutal dictatorships friendly to it to the tune of several billions every year) and the unending fights we seem to pick with the >1 billion Muslims out there are all justified on their own merits based on American interests or if there is something else behind the surface.
