Mr. Sowell neglects to mention the great strength that these Asians possess. That strength is IGNORANCE of today’s America.
They do not know, and have NEVER been told that the system is rigged against them. They do not know that they cannot rise above humble beginnings. They do not know that the “poverty” of the newly arrived is their future. They do not know that education is “denied” them. They do not “know” that America is an evil racist country that will conspire to keep them down.
Not knowing the “truth” about their NEW country, they, like the bumblebee simply do that which they do so well.
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Well, not exactly. They come from a highly structured culture with 3,000 years of literacy, that had a complex system of government exams for jobs when we were in the dark ages; that had millenia of business and abstract thought built into everyday life; that had an authoritarian clan and family system that was the basis of their culture.
Contrast that to people who were brought here in chains from illiterate societies, who had their history, such as it was, eradicated, had their families repeatedly destroyed, first through slavery and then via welfare, had their work ethic undermined by discrimination, were kept out of schools, and have only been able to travel freely like everyone else in their own country for the past two generations.
I know you will respond, if at all, by saying that I’m making excuses, but I’m not. I’m filling in a few blanks in the story, because when one simplifies, one lies. Of course people with millenia of advanced culture with a supreme value placed on literacy and unbroken traditions and closely-knit families are going to do better than savages who were enslaved and then denied access to society. It’s ridiculous to compare them.