Why are Asian-Americans so successful in America?

You really like using that word. Does it make your dick hard?

 

I say it so you don't have to.

 

Why would I use it? You're the racist apparently.

 

No. Just a grown-up who isn't afraid of bad words.

 

American children of Asian heritage are disproportionately unlikely to be born out of wedlock. More than two out of three African-American births occur out of wedlock, while only a fourth of non-Hispanic whites and a little more than one out of ten Asian-Americans are. Similar disparities obtain when we consider differences in the likelihood of being raised in a single-parent household.

On occasion, however, you come across as someone who's afraid to entertain certain thoughts, as in, e.g., the possibility that current disparities in achievement across racial groups might not be attributable exclusively to African-Americans' experiences with chattel slavery and Jim Crow.

 

Amid Poverty, a Family of Riches

 

Dick:

When you take your bedsheets to the cleaners, how do they get the hood to stay so pointy?

 

In before the lock but not in before the white privilege...

Also, doesn't percentage of population figure into it in some way?

And this will sound weird, and possibly awful, but are Chinese children adopted by Americans considered as academically successful as Chinese children raised by their birth parents?

 

I guess I'll share my childhood anecdote that always pops in my head when this question arises.

I knew exactly two Asian families growing up (and I believe the only two in what was then an overwhelmingly white small Midwestern town), one Indian, one Vietnamese. And what I distinctly recall was how their parents did not give the slightest shit about things like how their kids did athletically, how popular they were, who made the homecoming court, or other such stuff that tends to occupy the thoughts of white mommies and daddies. But they cared deeply, DEEPLY about how their kids did academically, to the point of being positively militant about ensuring their kids devoted hours to disciplined study each night, to the point where I recall thinking their parents were abusive study Nazis for forcing their kids to study so much.

So ever since then, whenever I hear this question, my first thought has been "well, based upon the Asian families I've known, I bet it has a lot to do with them simply placing a higher priority on academics above all else than families of other cultures." Now whether such prioritization is healthy to the kid or not is debatable. But I'm not sure why one's ancestors having been enslaved a couple centuries ago would preclude a family today from adopting such priorities.

 

I'm pretty certain the answer isn't that they have bad DNA.

But I recognize where I think you're argument is leading: Sure, the cycle of poverty may have begun with slavery and Jim Crow, but we perpetuate it with current policies - like poor public education - to the point that the current state of black America is as attributable to those policies as they are to the initial sources of poverty and lack of achievement.

 

I know, right? Easy peasy to climb out of that. Must be their bad black DNA holding them down.

 

Why don't you clarify your fucking point here. Because I'm not sure I get it. Nor that you got mine. Because one thing I most certainly never suggested is that DNA has anything to do with it.