IKNY-- Are you saying you would feel more comfortable with fresh of the boat asian over your standard white kid? Is it being asian that attracts you to them or shared experiences and perspectives?
During the AA cases a few years ago, the law schools put out the theory of a critical mass. Critical mass is the idea that having a few isolated individuals of a race won't add real diversity because they will be just that--too isolated and that there has to be a minimum amount for them to be comfortable and for there to be real diversity. Thus the law schools argued that while to some it might appear they were using quotas, they were really basing admissions on reaching a certain critical mass.
It was a clever an argument, but too clever, and probably should not have made, cause Rehnquist easily disposed of it by pointing out that the critical mass seems to be twice as high for African Americans than hispanaics for example.
However, what IKNY says rings true, there is a critical mass, nobody would want to stand out totally-for people to be comfortable they needed to be surrounded with a certain amount of people who are like them.
One thing that I can't figure out is what percent of middle class and wealthy urm's go back to live in urm concentrated minorities. If it is a high %, then the benefits of AA spread out to entire communities as the urm would gain a stronger infrasture in their community, more teachers of their own race, better politicians, more educated everything and that would set up the next generation to be in a better position than the previous generation. However if beneficiaries of AA don't go back to urm's communities, but settle into mainstream the benefits aren't spread out quite as much and the benefits of AA would be more concentrated into hands of a few urm's.