In this threaddebating admissions procedures a reference is made to the stereotype of the Asian student as a dull grind that universities do not want too many of in a “holistic” education model.
To prove this stereotype is false who are some exciting, expressive and vivacious American Asians NOT in show business?
Tiger Woods.
Vera Wang.
How about former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki?
But really, how many people of any ethnicity not in show business can you name who are “exciting, expressive and vivacious”?
Tammy Duckworth.
I mean, c’mon, veteran combat pilot for the exciting, politician for the charismatic. What a combo.
Does sports count as show business? If not:
Jeremy Lin
Dat Nguyen
Any number of hairdressers, including Suga, and my spouse, who was one of his proteges. And fashion designers such as Hanae Mori.
oops. Missed the Asian Americans stipulation.
Vern Yip (an interior designer who occasionally is on TV)
The Shahs of Sunset
I have a few friends who fit the bill but you wouldn’t know them. They also are not the same people who are 98 to 99%ile SAT, near straight As, multiple AP classes, and winners of music and/or science awards who are claiming they are victims of a de facto.
The problem with your request is that if someone is not a celebrity then few of us will know them.
There are all sorts of Asians in America, including many who are exciting and expressive, verbally gifted, or accomplished in sports. The subgroup who feels discriminated against at Harvard is a very small slice of the multi-flavored Asian American pie and not necessarily representative of the whole, nor does the whole containing all sorts mean that those all sorts also are those who get near perfect SATs/GPAs and are competing for a spot at Harvard.
Uh, most of my Asian university students.
Timothy Liu, poet and activist.
David Hwang, playwright. (I assume that playwrights don’t count as being in showbiz.)
My kids. Spend an evening with them and you’ll find them exciting, expressive and vivacious!
I went to Harvey Mudd College, a top-ranked school with no affirmative action program, where the student body was about 40% Asian American. Based on those I met, I would say that Asian Americans come loud and quiet, passive and aggressive, polite and rude, industrious and lazy, optimistic and pessimistic. I would say the same for any ethnic group.
The evidence is clear that Asian applicants to college get rejected where other applicants with the same test scores and GPAs get accepted. Saying that Asian applicants somehow fail in some unspecified “holistic” way is clearly a last-ditch effort by the discriminatory universities to cover their rear ends.
Senator Leland Yee has been indicted for gun running.
That might qualify him. 
My sister-in-law-- that is, my brother’s wife.
Also, not to as great a degree, but still pretty cool, my son’s first pre-school teacher.