Why Asian Americans Excel At Academics

Business Insider ^ | 05/06/2014 | TOM JACOBS, PACIFIC STANDARD

[warsaw44]

- and so Harvard should be all Asian or Jewish. Take the very best students you can get. Lowering standards based on what a student body looks like is crazy.

Want to see a liberals head explode - ask them if they would be willing to give up their child’s well earned placement at a university in the name of ‘ diversity ‘.

Ask them in the name of ‘ fairness ‘ if its okay for their child to attend Skunksville University rather than Harvard because a lesser qualified student took their place.

[Owl558]

“But what make them, as in Asians, ‘work harder’?”

A neighborhood (Chinese) woman once told me that Asians have to be better because schools discriminate against them.

[Hawthorn]

>> immigrant black families from Africa do extremely well <<

Ditto for blacks from the West Indies. In NYC, for example, they are only about 10% of the total black population, but they comprise the majority of professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.) in Harlem.

Also, a friend from Miami once told me whites would fear for their safety if they spent time in Liberty City. But in Little Haiti? No problem.

[Hawthorn]

>> any country with several private property billionaires <<

I agree fully with your general point that basically speaking, China is no longer communist except in name. So I don't mean to quibble. But it's not just several billionaires in China, to wit:

According to an article I saw the other day, China now has several hundred billionaires -- already something like 1/5th of the world total, with the number likely to continue rising.

[Sherman Logan]

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that.

China has millennia of history of government officials getting involved in truly astonishing corruption, as in entire armies, 100,000 men or more, dying of starvation because somebody embezzled the money that was supposed to pay for their food.

Since the Party seems to have gotten rid of its equivalent of the Emperor, who would occasionally prune back the most spectacular exampled of corruption, there does not now seem to be any check at all on Party members’ stealing.

Historically, the Mandate of Heaven deserts a dynasty (or a Party) when it gets to this point.

[17th Miss Regt]

I have nothing but admiration for cultures that excel and thrive in an academic environment—and I loathe the cultures that don’t.

What does that make me?

Do I have to say it? All together now! RACIST!