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.

[golux]

Individual competitions are cool...

But in every county in every state in the USA, our passion to give free crap away for votes and opened our doos to illegal everyones has utterly destroyed our public schools.

Destroyed.

[nwrep]

They are standing in front of a quote by the world’s foremost mathematician and the inventor of the Math Olympiad, Hillary Rodman Clinton.

[EDINVA]

well, clearly the MAA is a regressive homophobic, misogynistic, racist, xenophobic organization. And it’s Trump’s fault.

[Innovative]

Interesting.

People should be given the appropriate credit for their work, regardless of their gender.

[TheZMan]

I’m shocked they’re still allowed to have white coaches.

[Scrambler Bob]

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

I know you are baiting me to say: ironing, dish washing, laundry, sweeping; but I won’t!

[lonevoice]

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

Yes. Our President should invite them to the White House...and it's quite likely they would consider it an honor.

[bluejean]

Well crap, now that American Thinker, of all places, has called them out on this, the Rats will mount an assault on math competitions so these upstarts can “check their privilege”.

[Telepathic Intruder]

They should put together an all-female team of transgenders. That is, the same guys just wearing wigs and makeup.

[Uncle Lonny]

Looks like some of that Asian Privilege to me.(Sarcasm off)

[Oscar in Batangas]

I think the ‘queen’ tried to jump all the other pieces

[rfp1234]

The coaches are 100% non-POC.

[VTenigma]

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

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Meritocracy has no place in a leftist world.

[ealgeone]

2+2=4....always. It's how the real world works. The Left thinks otherwise, and sometimes I think they really do, and believes all viewpoints should be valued.

In a Leftie world 2+2 could equal 5....because that is valued more than 4.

[MayflowerMadam]

here be La’Shawn, Jamal, and Shatoya?”

Maybe if they re-wrote the word problems to calculate profits from grams of cocaine and similar there’d be more diversity. Or ratios figuring years in prison in relation to crimes committed, and relevant percentages. Or welfare payouts based on the number of sperm donors that are connected to one unwed mother. Things that M16 and gang thugs use in their day-to-day lives.

(I do wonder why more blacks don’t get involved in these types of competitions. I’ve met several who can kick ass in math.)

[MayflowerMadam]

I remember the day in elementary school when my brain suddenly grasped the gazinta concept — the long division part. I was so happy!

[Deplorable American1776]

That team is sexist AND racist!! No women and no blacks? No Native Americans...I don't know if any are gay, but I don't see a rainbow flag in the picture...we can't have this team...

Do I need a /s?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#35: "I do wonder why more blacks don’t get involved in these types of competitions."

It's because it is stigmatized within the black community. It is called "acting white". Young black students who try to succeed academically are bullied and beaten down and accused of "acting white".

It's been recongized as the "bucket of crabs" effect. If you've ever seen a basket full of live crabs, when one tries to escape the basket, the others grab it and drag it back in.
 

[zeestephen]

U.S. Team Takes First Place at European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad....

I tried to post the girls’ photo, but I get a complete blank.

Not even a small square with an “x” in it.

First time that’s happened.

[Chickensoup]

No dot-Indians.

Interesting.