Why are Asian-Americans so successful in America?

Don't forget starman's Call Us Next Thursday schtick ...

 

Did your virgin eyes make it through that trauma?

 

What are the habits?

 

In no way traumatized. Just think it's a stupid simple-headed tactic that you and starman seem oddly fond of. There's no shock value, only eye rolling, when you employ it. Do better.

 

No.

Because there are a couple possibilities here, and they need to be explored, not sugar-coated:

1. African-Americans' failures in America are a product of a poor history and poor policy;
2. African-Americans are shiftless niggers.

 

There are more than a couple possibilities. And the issue is more complex than how you've tried to frame it throughout this thread.

But, please, do keep posting the word nigger as much as you possibly can. We're all terribly impressed.

 

What other possibilities are there?

 

Square dealing, deferred gratification, valuing of bourgeois efforts/aims, etc. ...

My son's best friend, all the way through high school really, is a Korean girl. She wants to major in business but didn't get into their university's business school straight away. So she's studying economics (it's in the school of arts/sciences there) and busting it to transfer in. And by busting it, I mean busting it. Hours and hours of work to ensure that she gets the 98 on the exam rather than the 93.

Another close friend, a Chinese girl, was all-state in the violin all four years of high school. Her senior year she was considered the best/second-best high school violinist in Texas. She's now at the same university and wanted to major in music -- she'd likely have been selected as a performance major -- but her parents insisted she major in computer science.

I'm not saying these traits are desirable, mind you ... I'm simply saying these traits/habits are highly likely to lead to success in the world we live in.

 

It's a bullshit rhetorical approach, DW. You have it in your head you're herding people toward your preferred explanation with that play, but you're not. You can, and should, do better.

 

Everyone keeps saying that. But no one tells me the third possibility.

 

And as bad as your use of the n-word is, your attempt at imitating the board's resident wrestling expert is even worse.

 

I just think people need to understand how ridiculous it is to say "personal responsibility" is to blame and calling it a day.