[ErnBatavia]

Funny - yesterday I was having a bit of work done by my female Vietnamese dentist; she chatted a bit with me and her assistant, a Japanese woman who's taking, and struggling with, a college writing course.

The dentist then made a comment, with which the assistant agreed: "We Asians are good with numbers, but we are not creative people". Assistant agreed, saying she'd always been top of class in the math classes.

[Hacklehead]

“We Asians are good with numbers, but we are not creative...”

So is a calculator.

[James C. Bennett]

They’re probably worse in history.

The inventors of gunpowder and fire-arms can’t be that bad.

Oh, and by the way, for classification purposes “Asians” also include people from the Indian subcontinent. The high incomes are from this group. There are other surveys breaking down income by ethnic origin.

‘Asian Indian’ Americans, ‘Japanese’ Americans and Ashkenazi Jews have consistently occupied the top slots here.

[wideminded]

The dentist then made a comment, with which the assistant agreed: "We Asians are good with numbers, but we are not creative people".

At a Chinese wedding dinner I attended, the topic of fung shui came up, and I commented that maybe there is some sort of artistic basis to it. I was surprised that someone else at the table put down her entire race, saying: "Chinese artistic? No way."