What about for specific groups that do not have any history of persecution? Like the native Malaysians giving AA for themselves over minority simply because the minorities are harder workers or more intelligent? Should Singapore give AA for Indians and Malaysians?
How about all of the other minorities who are being negatively affected by AA? Asian Americans have a history of being persecuted in the USA, 2nd only to African-Americans. At the same time their is more discrimination going on against Asian Americans than anyone else. Even White people get AA when it comes to Asians.
A 2005 study by Princeton sociologists Thomas J. Espenshade and Chang Y. Chung compared the effects of affirmative action on racial and special groups at three highly selective private research universities. The data from the study represent admissions disadvantage and advantage in terms of SAT points (on the old 1600-point scale):
Whites: 0 (control group)
Blacks: +230
Hispanics: +185
Asians: –50
Recruited athletes: +200
Legacies (children of alumni): +160
"In 2009, Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade and researcher Alexandria Walton Radford, in their book 'No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal', examined data on students applying to college in 1997 and calculated that Asian-Americans needed nearly perfect SAT scores of 1550 to have the same chance of being accepted at a top private university as whites who scored 1410 and African-Americans who got 1100. Whites were three times, Hispanics six times, and blacks more than 15 times as likely to be accepted at a US university as Asian-Americans. These results were after controlling for grades, scores, family background (legacy status) and athletic status (whether or not the student was a recruited athlete)."