Aside: I think it is interesting that of Joe Biden’s Asian appointees to his administration noticeably very few have been of East Asian descent compared to those of South Asian descent. https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1341383119644073985

Not quite sure why that is. My sense is it is not so much bias (though perhaps a bit) as opposed to the greater tendency of people South Asian descent to get the law, economic & policy degrees - and to take the type of gateway jobs - that lend themselves to administration jobs.

Or perhaps it is a greater willingness of people of South Asian descent to be involved in the messiness of politics, including all the networking and intra-party stuff.

(As a side note to this, it has also been interesting that the Asian American doctors who have been on TV about COVID (& 2020 has been a banner year for Asian inclusion on TV news shows) also have been overwhelmingly been of South Asian rather than East Asian descent.)

(Again, not sure why the overwhelming split - it just may be that people of South Asian descent are more willing to do TV or have better connections with network bookers. Or there could be some subtle bias about who is better on TV. )