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Dev is the 22nd champion in the past 24 years with South Asian heritage. His father, Deval, a software engineer, immigrated to the United States from India 29 years ago to get his master’s degree in electrical engineering. Dev’s older brother, Neil, is a rising junior at Yale.
1 posted on 06/02/2023 10:15:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 06/02/2023 10:16:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Face it, Asians and a lot of Jews are better parents. There is nothing they do that our grandparents did different.


3 posted on 06/02/2023 10:18:15 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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The Bee made a video a year ago about spelling bees that's funnier than a Lane Kiffin press conference. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mnQTzhVgl8

7 posted on 06/02/2023 10:23:07 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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The young lady that came in second had much more difficult words to spell in her last 2 rounds.

Not taking away from the champ....just sayin....

8 posted on 06/02/2023 10:24:55 AM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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The spelling bees are dominated by Asians and Indians.........Good for them


9 posted on 06/02/2023 10:26:55 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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14 posted on 06/02/2023 10:36:16 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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Pselling bees.

Word is, it’s a big bizzness, but only for the most industrious.


15 posted on 06/02/2023 10:36:43 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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It would be interesting to follow up on the careers of the spelling bee champions of the last 20-30 years.

Also, many of the champions are of Indian descent (India the country), so, why isn’t there a call for those kids and parents to stop studying harder than other kids and making those other kids feel less valuable, especially black and Hispanics?


16 posted on 06/02/2023 10:37:56 AM PDT by adorno
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Congrats to him. If a white student had one it they would have declared spelling bees to be racist and a threat to woke values of inclusion and diversity.


17 posted on 06/02/2023 10:45:37 AM PDT by jimwatx
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Immigrants come here to improve their lives and the good ones come legally and most of them have good strong families. Dev to that in saying why he did so well - parents that gave him encouragement and support - parents showed they believed in him.


22 posted on 06/02/2023 11:20:50 AM PDT by Wuli
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bump


23 posted on 06/02/2023 11:30:51 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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I never saw the point of spelling bees.

Who spells words without writing them down?


25 posted on 06/02/2023 11:32:53 AM PDT by DarrellZero
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You mean like a geoduck?


28 posted on 06/02/2023 12:06:16 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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They should have given him a word like pissantophile, that is a person who love politicians.


31 posted on 06/02/2023 12:35:52 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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I remember several years ago people arguing that the word yacht in a spelling bee was “racist” since blacks don’t know anything about yachts.


34 posted on 06/02/2023 1:28:27 PM PDT by euram (allALL)
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In case you’ve never had a child participate in the National Spelling Bee, each year a book is published of the words that they may be asked to spell. It’s a big book, and there are many hard words, but it’s not like they must study the entire dictionary. Highly disciplined students - often because of their very achievement oriented parents - study these words RELENTLESSLY. Several home-schoolers have won because they make studying them part of their daily curriculum.


35 posted on 06/02/2023 1:31:14 PM PDT by LizzieD
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