Posted on 03/24/2015 10:00:53 PM PDT by Cronos
My kids are half-white, half-asian, so they’re double screwed.
There's no surplus of young men. Historically, Chinese men who did well had multiple wives, whereas those who were poor rented after they had saved up for it. Today, Chinese incomes are high enough that single men can import wives both from non-Communist (Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand) and nominally Communist (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) neighbors, all of which now have lower average incomes. What's impressive about China is that per capita output has gone up almost 70x since its economic liberalization in 1979. It's not hyperbole to say that there has never been anything like this in recorded economic history. Which is why economists are so impressed.
The single child policy is probably the one thing that *might* hold China back from foreign military adventures. Because the one thing that might touch off a national insurrection is a war that kills off many family lines. And successful Chinese insurrections have, in the recent past, involved the partial extermination of the previous ruling class.
The Chinese are individualists to a fault. They don't get involved in politics for the greater good because the cost of losing in the Chinese milieu can involve getting killed perhaps along with their families (dispatched to labor camps to be starved to death). The only thing worth fighting for is your family. With one child families, the most important element is that child. A regime that puts the entire nation's only children at risk is risking its continued existence.
This is why the Party keeps raising the military budget (~$200b today) and is transitioning to an all-volunteer force.
Re elder care, the Chinese are pretty naturalistic about these things. They don't sent the elderly out into the wilderness to die of exposure as they used to, in times of severe deprivation. But beyond a certain point, they throw their hands up and cut off life support.
de Blasio thinks the SHSAT favours parents who can afford tutors. He wants to "broaden" (ie, relax) the admissions criteria, to help poorer black and Hispanic families... Asians make up more than 70% of pupils at Stuyvesant; blacks and Hispanics combined make up 3%, and falling. White pupils took 80% of places in 1970; now it is less than 25%.Are they Asians, or are they Middle Eastern Arabs, Turks, and Iranians? If the former, Michigan will take them all.
Rather than encouraging the lower half to get better, Marxists always punish the successful. Too many of these kids could become capitalists.
Pray America is waking
Here is the difference the way I see it.
On my way home from work everyday I would pass the local Chinese take out. While the parents were behind the counter,the 2 kids were at a table studying. For the 5 years I passed the store, everyday the two kids would be at the table studying. No social life, no joking around. Just heads down and working.
That’s why they go to Stuyvesant. No more, no less.
I'll keep this in mind, for the next time you come around with your hand out for your latest chinese activism cause.
No place for over achievers.
“Arab Christians in the Mid East are not Americans. We owe them nothing.
I’ll keep this in mind, for the next time you come around with your hand out for your latest chinese activism cause.”
And you are directing this at me, why?
What Chinese activism cause? The only thing I think we should have given the Chinese was a passel of nukes (unloaded on major Chinese military staging areas, or whatever targets MacArthur favored, from B-29's) during the Korean War, when we had a good excuse for doing so, after the PLA did a Pearl Harbor of sorts in ambushing our guys near the Yalu. As far as I'm concerned, China is the biggest potential military threat we've ever encountered, and I don't envy policymakers who will have to figure out whether to fish or cut bait in the Orient, if Chinese policymakers proceed as their historical predecessors have done to enhance their personal prestige by expanding China's territorial boundaries once it gets strong enough. This dilemma will become far more difficult to juggle in the decades ahead, as China's economy overtakes that of the US and its Far Eastern allies combined.
However, these people you're talking of discriminating against are Americans of Asian extraction. I don't share your view that Asian Americans are fake Americans, which is why I disagree that they should be discriminated against.
It was intended for a different poster. Sorry.
Ethan — the “asians” referred here are Americans.... of asian origin
Not quite. If you have two people who work hard, practice etc. you will still find that the person with two brilliant parents tends to be the one coming ahead. However, of course, if the brilliant one doesn’t work hard, they will fall behind. Conversely, even if one has a low IQ and works hard, they can do well in school and even more in real life
Because it’s easier.
I’m surprised there isn’t a widespread demonization of Asian-American culture like they are doing with YT.
The whole “white privilege” BS is simply based on envy of achievement, same as antisemitism.
LOL
Ever hear the term "Chinese Fire Drill"?
And Jews have some kind of souped up CPU in their brains that make them super human cyborgs?
Most Chinese and Jewish kids in America have good parents that encourage hard work , study, and encourage success.
These are cultural traits, not genetic.
Your list of countries by IQ does not account for socio-economic bias.
Compare the IQ of kids in Greenwich Ct or Los Alamos NM against the effin chinese and your study goes to hell in a hand basket.
The Chinese DO NOT have higher IQ's than Americans, just higher than Americans in gibsmedat communities that have a welfare mentality.
Exactly.
Graduated Brooklyn Tech in the late 80's, was accepted at Stuy, BHS, and Beach Channel as well.
Took advanced classes in Junior High and skipped 9th grade, the entrance exam had nothing to do with memorization.
In today's world I would counsel bright kids to get a GED and start college at 14, you can take classes online and be done with your bachelors by 17 and have a masters at 19 if you don't take off for the summers.
With a Masters at 19 you have a great shot at entrance into all kinds of prestigious institutions for post graduate degrees.
The asian method of education is of asian origin as well. Let's hope it stays in asia. American education should follow western patterns of education, not chinese ones.
Well, that's if you consider Old English as "English" :-P -- when you read Bede, it looks more like German to me, with all the declinations. I think we can only characterise English as being born from around the time of the Bard
i didn’t say i worked hard once i got in there.
I would agree with you to a point, but to say that intelligence means nothing is silly. I don't know what your educational background is but one of the primary reasons many people that I know believe what you do is that our educational system has been “dumbed down” dramatically over the last few decades.
It is now possible for persons of average or even less than average intelligence to complete courses of study that previously would have been out of their reach. On the surface that sounds like a good thing; unfortunately the training provided is now substandard compared to what it used to be.
This partially explains why there are so many persons who have earned “advanced degrees” in technical fields that will argue nonsense such as consensus is a valid part of the scientific method.
Hard work, determination, persistence and focus may very well get a person with less ability through difficult courses of study. In the real world these same attributes are also the most reliable predictors of success, but if they are hard working and determined those with innate intelligence and creative abilities are more often the true innovators in the real world. I am sure that you realize that discounting intelligence is a mistake.
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