Asians work.
“The Bell Curve”
All of the Asians I know are good, decent, enjoyable people. They’ve made me “racist” in the opposite direction: if I see an Asian person, I just assume that whatever interaction we may have will be a good one.
Wish I could say the same about a certain other racial group.
My recollection is that the seismic shift in white American’s attitudes about Asians began in the 1960s, when G.I.s returning from our Southeast Asian adventures came home with Japanese cameras that were vastly better than American cameras, Japanese consumer electronics that were vastly better than American consumer electronics, and happy memories of Asian women who were, frankly, a hell of a lot lower maintenance than American women.
Then, when Americans began to see that Japanese cars were so much better than American cars, and — it pains me to say this, as I used to work for Harley-Davidson and still own stock in it — Japanese motorcycles followed suite, a lot of Americans began to think: “Hmm. Maybe they’re onto something over there.”
The first wave of the anime invasion clinched the deal.
Because they are statistically less likely to rape and murder us?
They did not turn to and depend on politicians to improve their lot. They took responsibility for their lives, their lot and their future. They did not demand but rather they produced and contributed.
Dunno about that. I was in California when the Viets started arriving in huge numbers. Next thing I read was that U.S. college kids were checking the class registration lists to see if there was a predominance of Asians - if so, they opted for another class. It seems the Asians were skewing the grade curve so much that the U.S. kids had to WORK to pass the class.
At Camp Pendleton, where a lot of them went through the registration phase, the running joke was that these people were so industrious that they were making egg rolls for sale on the flight over here.
I know that at the time I thought that the Viets were a good analogy to aliens from another planet. They looked different, spoke a different language, worshipped a different God and stood out in most ways.
Four years later their kids were class valedictorians and there were Viet food shops all over the place.
What hit me recently was when I went to a small optometry shop in Las Vegas, run by two women. Their last names were Vietnamese but there first names were "Stephanie" and "Tiffany" - talk about assimilation! I always think of those women when I read those made up black names so many inner-city types come up with, indicating to me anyway, a reluctance to adopt America and its values.
Message: Don’t believe the facts, or your own lying eyes, about Asians studying hard, getting good grades, have sound families, having low crime rates or high savings rates; having anything to do with why they are better perceived than blacks, or why they enjoy better economic outcomes than blacks.
In the alt-left view of reality, it is all about politics and media messaging - that is the REAL difference between Asians and Blacks in America. It is an article of unimpeachable faith that white racism is the paramount factor in all things in life.
It is family cohesion and work ethic. Blacks and progressives have lost both. Work ethic is allowing hispanics to fare far better than blacks. My extended family consists of white, Mexicans and Asians in good numbers. The threats to ethnic and racial groups are Marxism (no. 1), welfare state dependency, narco gangs, the drugs themselves and culture disfunction. There are good and bad in every group. The growing meth and progressivist groups thriving among whites have to be addressed before you can condem any entire ethnicity or race.
Asians have similar work and family ethics as whites, and also the intelligence to compete with them. Other groups don’t, and it explains the great disparities in achievement.
Martial Arts.
Yeah, because everyone knows about Asian History Month, and a lot of schools teach about the accomplishments of Sun Yat-Sen right alongside Martin Luther King.
Thomas Sowell identifies Asian culture — especially Chinese culture — as valuing thrift, sobriety, personal discipline, hard work, practical wisdom, and education to such a degree as to make Asians successful in the US and around the world. This seems to be on the mark.
I think also the popularity of Asian dramas, especially KDramas, has had an impact.
Maybe the fact that we almost never seem to get robbed or raped by Asian-Americans had a little something to do with it, eh?
Just STFU about ‘racism’.
Whites are no more or no less ‘racist’ than any other race.
Yellow fever—Asian women are attractive?
Could that be the reason?
i’ll just throw in maybe its cuzz the Babes are Hot!
Hate and stupid is a bad combo and the asians are neither.
Because everyone looks great when compared to Africans.