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Time for truth-
I don’t have stats on university acceptance, I assume it is merit based. It is possible that certain sefardim come from under-privileged homes/schools and are less qualified and don’t get into university. Don’t know. The sefardim at my work place, are, like the ashkenazim, all bright and highly educated. But even if university acceptance is skewed, you still have the other equalizing factor- the army -which takes sefardim and ashkenazim alike.
I am not sure I understand you comments, it seems that you did not understood mine. I was giving my interpretation of the chiloni attitude past and present, not my opinions about what is the right thing to do. I was discussing how early European Zionists forced the sefardim to give up their culture/religion (not something that I was promoting or applauding, obviously (note my use of “”) just stating that it happened). And how racism is less of an issue now among chilonim because that policy more or less worked- unlike in the chareidi world, the differences between ashkenazim and sefardim of the current generation are minimal, and so there is no problem getting along with people who are more like you.