I certainly agree with what you said.
Interesting that is (or was) very easy to claim minority status.Talk about a boost though getting ahead of a few million others.
So I take from what you posted that the students who where not really and truly a minority (the guy with the great-great-great-grandfather) but got the boost also failed out.
It is true an instant boost at such a late point in education does not do any good so long as the student is expected to meet the same standards during the schooling.
How long to it take the Chinese government to change the policy or have they yet?
In the US the Israeli would be considered White though unless he was an Ethiopian Jew in which case he'd be African American which in my mind is not correct.That to me is the whole problem with racial/ethnic classifications they often do not make sense.What is a person who has one white parent and one Asian parent? Depends I have known some that call them selves white and other that call themselves Asians and one that said he was a Chinese-German American.
There will never be total unification(equal treatment) amongst humans to me it would be wiser to encourage competition if a minority realized that he or she was at a disadvantage then they should have the idea in their head to put twice the effort into education and competition in order to be obviously superior.
Take the Tuskegee Airmen they received no breaks or re-tires during their training many of the instructors wanted them to fail.Of course the black pilots wanted to prove that they could fly and the ones that did it perfectly(literally) passed.Then in the war zone again they knew that many wanted them to fail this is why the Tuskegee wing was the most successful at actually escorting bombers(not chasing for kills but sticking with the bombers).
The Slate article is pretty interesting (both parts).