Un-diverse US team ties for first place at International Math Olympiad

American Thinker ^ | 07/21/2019 | Ethel C. Fenig

[SeekAndFind]

Quick! Call the diversity police!  For the fourth time in five years the US team placed first in the International Mathematical Olympiad, this year tying for first place with China. 

The six U.S. team members also won gold medals for their individual high scores on the Olympiad, known as the world championship mathematics competition for high school students.

However, this very dominating winning team does not look like America -- all members are males, 5 Asians and one Caucasian, judging by appearances.  

Photo credit: Carnegie-Mellon University

Pictured above: 2019 U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad team members from left: Edward Wan, Daniel Zhu, Brandon Wang, Colin Shanmo Tang, Luke Robitaille, Vincent Huang

Race, gender, ethnicity, family income, sexual orientation or other identifiers do not factor in to qualifying for the team to attend the Olympiad.  Instead, selection is based solely on scores in math competitions.  

Students qualify for the U.S. IMO team by participating in a series of competitions provided by the Mathematical Association of America’s competitions program, called the MAA American Mathematics Competitions (AMC). Approximately 300,000 students worldwide participate in the MAA American Mathematics Competitions each year which leads the nation in strengthening the mathematical capabilities of the next generation of problem solvers. The six U.S. team members joined 65 of their peers from the United States and seven other countries at MAA AMC’s Mathematical Olympiad Program in June to immerse themselves in problem solving and train for the IMO and other international competitions including the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad where the U.S. team, also organized by MAA, won first place in April.

Similar objective standards apply for the international competition.

[SamAdams76]

One thing you don’t hear about much these days is chess tournaments.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: One thing you don’t hear about much these days is chess tournaments.

In Chess, the USA has 3 of the top 10 best players in the world.

Wesley So — Filipino of Chinese ancestry

Fabiano Caruana — Italian descent

Hikaru Nakamura — you can guess his ethnicity from the name.

[NorthMountain]

Nothing about that picture is surprising … and anybody who says it “doesn’t look like America” can pound sand.

[struggle]

>One thing you don’t hear about much these days is chess tournaments.

I used to coach a chess club at my high school.

It was going fine until a gay student used the opportunity to hit on all the other players. Now I don’t coach chess anymore.

[Trumpet 1]

Achievement was allowed to happen. The Best were allowed to be the Best.

[Innovative]

We should be glad that the US team is doing so well and not get distracted with nonsensical, irrelevant issues.

Men and boys tend to be better than females in some things, like math.

There are other things, at which girls and women are better.

But there are a few exceptions for both, but you cannot and should not force things.

Madam Curie was an outstanding scientist, as an example.

And many excellent chefs are men.

[SeekAndFind]

The US Basketball Olympic Team that won Gold in Rio De Janeiro. Anybody said anything about diversity here?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Where be La'Shawn, Jamal, and Shatoya?
 

[GraceG]

The Left doesn't like asians they are their least favorite "minority"... even though make up nearly 50%+ of the planetary population...

[NorthMountain]

Nothing surprising about that picture, either. And anybody who says it “doesn’t look like America” can pound sand.

[ladyjane]

Madam Curie was an outstanding scientist, as an example.

Rosalin Franklin was also an outstanding scientist. She first photographed DNA and her photographs were shown - without her permission - to Crick and Watson. They won the Nobel for publishing a description of the structure of DNA that they saw in *her* photographs.

[NativeSon]

Did the bishop jump the queen?

[gaijin]

Other astonishing news;

ZERO Koreans playing for LA Lakers..!

[Secret Agent Man]

So what? They were consistently proving they were the best.

Next year different people will prove they are the best to send.

Libtards socialists say it doesnt matter skin color or gender, so shut the fuch up, it doesn’t matter they are all men and no blacks or hispanics or indians are there. The best is the best. and they all repeatedly earned their places there.

[Secret Agent Man]

Only time you hear about chess is when they all focus on one of the few women who can be ranked high enough to play and beat the men.

[Loud Mime]

That is a HORRIBLE photo. I worked as their photographer for 35 years, but was not allowed to ONE Olympic Games. I still wonder why. My work was far better than that piece of crap.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

…based solely on scores in math competitions.

How unfair! I hope they are adding 10 points for brown skin, adding 20 points for black skin, deducting 25 points for Asian ancestry, deducting 50 points for being white, and deducting 100 points for red hair.

[Yardstick]

Wow, and per the article the girls’ math team won first place a few weeks ago:

Emma Qin
Ishika Shah
Janabel Xia
Catherine Wu
Meghal Gupta
Rachel Zhang

Similar ethnic composition. Great pic of them with the flag and even a very American looking hamburger figurine!

https://www.maa.org/news/us-team-takes-first-place-at-european-girls-mathematical-olympiad

[bramps]

Asians must really know their gazinta’s.