"But at What Price?"

"American society is built around what white people like and don’t like. They decide which foreign foods are 'in' (bubble tea, burritos) and what's 'gross' or 'exotic' (menudo, say, or marinated pig ears). American standards for acceptable behavior—the way people talk, the language they use, the food they eat in a mainstream company—are carefully tailored to the tastes of white people. It makes sense. White people run the country and the vast majority of its institutions. They hold most of the wealth. Perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that some Asian-Americans are aligning themselves with white people when it comes to university admissions. Appealing to white taste, after all, is a baseline requirement for advancement."

Iris Kuo at The Atlantic discusses the "'Whitening' of Asian Americans."