Posted on 06/12/2005 7:11:02 AM PDT by ex-Texan
“WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bursting into tears, eighth-grader Anurag Kashyap of California became the U.S. spelling champ Thursday… Tied for second place were 11-year-old Samir Patel, who is home-schooled in Colleyville, Texas, and Aliya Deri, 13, a Pleasanton, California, student.” Indian kids have won first place in five of the last seven years.
Might be there’s a pattern here? Nah.
A friend in California has an Asia wife (which both he and I recommend), and so is among the few whites plugged into the state’s Asian community. He reports that the Asians are contemptuous of whites. (“Lazy, not very smart.”) The evidence supports them. They also believe that the chief aim of schooling in America is to coddle blacks and Latinos, which baffles them. Me too, but it isn’t my problem.
Top twelve students on the USA Math Olympiad 2003: Boris Alexeev, Jae Bae, Daniel Kane, Anders Kaseorg (home-schooled), Mark Lipson, Tiankai Liu, Po-Ru Loh, Po-Ling Loh, Aaron Pixton, Kwokfung Tang, Tony Zhang, Yan Zhang.
Take out Asians and Jews out of measures of high intellectual performance in America, and you aren’t left with much. The foregoing doesn’t look much different from staffing lists I have encountered for such things as research teams at Bell Labs. A friend, writing a book on Harvard, calculates that Asians and Jews make up about forty-five percent of the school. The Asians know this, of course. They figure the future is theirs. So do I.
"HOUSTON CHRONICLE, May 19, 2005: HISD [Houston Independent School District] sees its passing rates [on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills] fall in every grade and a racial gap grow even wider."
The contempt of the Asians for witless round-eyes is understandable. They, in my considerable experience, are intensely competitive and look toward results. Whites just don’t care. I remember staying with a friend in Canada who had rooming with her a Chinese woman who was working on a degree at a local university. She only barely spoke English, but among other things was also studying French, a required course I suppose, and passing it by brute force. She needed that degree to bring her family over. She was going to get it, and that was that. She seldom came out of her room, because that was where her books were. Might be hard to compete with.
Winners of the 2004 William Lowell Putnam mathematics competition, a very high-end test: Reid W. Barton, Daniel M. Kane, Emanuel Stoica, Ana Caraiani, Suehyun Kwon, Mihai Manea, Nikifor C. Bliznashki, Oaz Nir, Lingren Zhang, Olena Bormashenko, Ralph Furmaniak, Michael A. Lipnowski, Po-Ru Loh, Mehmet B. Yenmez, and Rumen I. Zarev.
American schools lurch after “diversity” like drunks who have discovered a bottle of Night Train on the sidewalk, and collect what educationists call “minorities.” By “minority” they mean of course non-performing minorities: Anglo-Saxons, Chinese, Jews, and Greeks are all minorities, but they are not failures, and so aren't really minorities. The Asians, all that I know, all that anyone I know knows, do not give a wan, etiolated damn about non-performers. Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans are very racially conscious. They quietly regard whites as inferior, blacks as barbarians.
Ah, and the Asians are smart, and do not come out of their rooms until they have finished.
New York Daily News, May 10, 2005: A stunning 81% of the city's eighth-graders flunked the state's basic social studies exam last year - and the scores have gone down annually since the test debuted in 2001.
The comedy of the thing is that the United States has deliberately chosen to convert itself into a continent of half-literate iPod-carrying dolts. To me it is entertaining; to the rising Asian nations it is an inexplicable gift: The US, their competition, has put its children into the hands of simian gurglers mewling about diversity, which, while positively weird as seen through slanted eyes, it bodes well for Asia. It is a bit like watching an opposing running back set off in the wrong direction.
The slave coders of Mumbai don’t worry about diversity. They are busy writing computer code. Our code.
Even better:
“CLOVIS, N.M. (April 29) - A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.”
A kid brings his lunch wrapped in a newspaper so the school goes crazy and puts snipers on the roofs. I love this stuff. It’s better than The Simpsons. Do you suppose they do that in Tokyo? The Mad Burrito Assassin isn’t unusual. Little boys often get suspended or led out in handcuffs by cops for things like pointing and saying “Bang,” because heavily womanized schools can’t maintain order.
The Weekly Standard, 05/09/05, writing of the politicization of textbooks in American schools: “Thus, a chapter on climate in a fifth-grade science textbook in the Discovery Works series, published by Houghton Mifflin (2000), opens with a Native American explanation for the changing seasons: "Crow moon is the name given to spring because that is when the crows return. April is the month of Sprouting Grass Moon." Students meander through three pages of Algonquin lore before they learn that climate is affected by the rotation and tilt of Earth--not by the return of the crows.”
Oh, baby. I love it when you talk like that. Crow Moon, yet. All that neat stuff about crows will definitely impress Japanese guys designing supercomputers.
I imagine:
Teacher to classroom full of Asian kids: “Wun Lung, given two functions u(x) and v(x), the first derivative of uv with respect to x is u(dv/dx) + v(du/dx). True or false?”
To gringo kids: “Billy, if during Grub Moon, one heart-warming aboriginal finds seven repellent grubs to eat, and another heart-warming aboriginal finds nine, how many will they have together?” (Answer: They won’t have a clue because their number system doesn’t go that high.)
From Gene Expression (gnxp.com) “Mean GRE Verbal Score for Education PhDs: 449
Mean GRE Verbal Score for Engineers: 471
Mean GRE Quantitative Score for Education PhDs: 527
Mean GRE Quantitative Score for Engineers: 722
Number of other disciplines, out of 5, with mean scores higher than Education PhDs: 5
Source: http://ftp.ets.org/pub/gre/994994.pdf
Gosh, do you reckon the Singaporeans give phony doctorates to the dimmest dregs of their already bus-station schools?
Detroit News, Tuesday, January 18, 2005: Forty-seven percent of Detroit’s adult population is functionally illiterate.
Come on, we can do better than that. Let’s try for eighty percent within five years. Meanwhile I’m going to get my eyes done and break out my old Mandarin books. Hey, the Chinese are smart, the food’s good and the women are splendid. “Ni hau? Jende, wo mei-you kan-gwo numma hau-kan-de syau-jyeh.” Used to work. Might still.
C'mon, don't tease us! This 1/2 Asian wants to know which 4.5% he's wrong about....
Man, this about says it....
I wonder if biology students in China, Japan, and India have to study intelligent design.
Wow give them hell Harry
I don't give them hell I tell the truth and they think it is hell
The future belongs to either the Asians, or the Indians. I see India becoming a super-power within our lifetimes. India realizes the importance of education, and the errors they have made in the past.
EVERY Indian high school graduate speaks at LEAST 3 languages. Hindi, their national language, English and what ever local or state language is spoken (there are over 250 of them). Many speak dialects from neighboring states as well. Now let's add French and Spanish to the mix, and we have a pretty versatile combination.
Indians and Asians simply don't accept poor performance. They don't lower the bar so the class looks better; and they don't give a crap about how a failing student may suffer from 'self-image'.
The white engineers I work with are superb, the indians are becoming a force of hard working, sincere, polite and determined engineers (they are a pleasure to work with). I work with a few Black engineers; those that have been note worthy have all commented on how other blacks used to pick on them for being 'white inside'.
I have NEVER met, seen or even heard of a Native American Engineer. IMHO, even though the schooling is provided free of charge, and seats are kept empty so that they can take any class they choose, at any university they like, they are either too stupid or too lazy to accept this gift.
He's about 50% right at best. Typical Asian-woman fetishing white man. Look, Black people used to be like Asians, hard working, appreciative of learning, good in school, non-accepting of slackness. The problems started when we bought into the idea of integration at-all-costs. Tell me how do the 0.00004% of the world's Asian population here in the US compare to the other 2-3 BILLION on the planet? How are THEY doing? The Malay, the Thais, the Hmong, the Filipinos, etc? And besides the women, does he respect the men as well? I bet not.
Ping
Excellent, no holds barred -- a gem.
great post
Yeah, but we beat the snot out of them when it comes to existential lethargy.
America's greatness is about imagination, creativity, and inventiveness.
Asian and Indian economies are adept at perfecting what we created.
It doesn't matter about the description of the people, the ideas are created within the USA because the conditions are right for creativity.
If the round-eyes are content to live off of their past success for a few generations then others will take the lead.
The secret is to maintain the environment of inventiveness, creativity and entrepreneurship.
Wannabe Uber-Mench that is.
Great comment, Good article. Tahnks for a clear look at America's future.
Oh, please. So there was no imagination, creativity, or inventiveness before America came along?
When economies are in the early stages of development, they imitate the products of other countries. But that is not the case with Japan anymore. Once China and India get going, I expect that we will see a similar pattern of creativity and ingenuity that we see in Japan. Then 100 years after they reach their peak, they will probably become lazy and complacent like us.
America is great because we have a system of contract law and property rights. Countries that successfully implement those principles succeed.
All that neat stuff about crows will definitely impress Japanese guys designing supercomputers.
The same guy who goes home and kills himself, or who's kid kills himself over pressure to enter Tokyo University and become a worker bee drone like Dad? Suicide Culture Prevails In Japan
The slave coders of Mumbai don’t worry about diversity. They are busy writing computer code. Our code.
Yeah, before they go home and mother-in-law torches the new wife for failing to cook properly?
Little boys often get suspended or led out in handcuffs by cops for things like pointing and saying “Bang,” because heavily womanized schools can’t maintain order.
As opposed to Japanese schools where little boys throw bombs into classrooms:Japanese student goes postal
Hey, the Chinese are smart, the food’s good and the women are splendid.
False, J-food and J-women are FAR better, and probably why Sino-Japanese relations continue to be strained. ;^)
Japan (sort of) * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
I Just got back from 10 days in Taiwan. Around the corner from my hotel was a 7 story english school. They had english learning shows on TV. English word of the day on the front page of the taipai times whith want ads for english instructors. I saw kids at 6:30 at night just getting out of school with thier uniforms, No pierceings, body art wierd hairdo's etc.
Education and business was thier country's Manhatan or Apollo project in 20 years they will own the world.
Article is skewed because only the smartest and brightest and most competitive make it to the US out of populations of a couple of billion.
I send my Daughter to catholic school where teaching standards are much higher than the local system. The standardized tests from her school are not included in state submissions as it would cut the amount of state and federal monies they recieve.
If you have high expectations you get more.
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