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Most Asian kids attending reputable schools are probably first or second generation immigrants.
How do you explain their success?
Strong family structure and parents with no sense of humor that drive the children to learn by whatever means necessary. Not all Asians are like that. The ones we see here tend to be the smarter more motivated ones.
I grew up poor and have white skin. Single, welfare addict, wastrel mom and an absentee alcoholic dad. Started paying bills when I was 11 years old, been paying them ever since. I went to college, got three whole degrees to prove it.
Where's my affirmative action? Oh that's right, apparently, having white skin means there's no way I was actually poor, because only black people in ghettos (where all black people apparently live?) are poor. That's right, now I remember. I must have been dreaming when I was in all those classes, taking those tests, and oh yeah PAYING BACK MY LOANS. That could never happen....not to a white kid, since we get all the breaks and are all rich.
How many other kids in your neighborhood that had the same situation were as successful? You are the exception, not the common one.
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Logic fail, but thanks for playing.
Anyone with a pulse can earn a 2.5 weighted high school grade point average simply by showing up.
Anyone with a pulse can take the ACT or SAT. When you have a 2.5 gpa, there is no hurdle, minimum, or threshold score. Literally, you don't need to fill in a single bubble.
Back to your invalid point, qualified is irrelevant.
Merit is relevant.
You were proven wrong, so now your argument is to the move the goal post. noted.
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note to self: tests and grades do not exist...
in the last 10 years, every movie about a genius includes the era in their life where they flunked a class because it was boring or didnt care, or because all the other kids had a 180 dollar calculator and he was adding on his fingers, or what ever.
so yea, maybe that statements sounds out there, but I would think we all understood it on some level.
Born to Korean immigrants parents.
Joined US Navy Seals
Attended UCSD majoring in Math paid for by the Navy
Attended Harvard medical school to be an ER physician
Applied and accepted into NASA for astronaut program
If this guy can do it, then anybody can do it. Yet, the dems love to portray black and Hispanics as dumb and unmotivated group of people who need help.
Affirmative Action has run its course for 60 years.
How many other kids in your neighborhood that had the same situation were as successful? You are the exception, not the common one.
Which neighborhood? I moved 17 times from 1st grade to graduation from high school. In grades 2, 4 and 6, I was in no less than 3 different school systems each year, as my mom ran away from bill collectors and relocated...often in the middle of the night. Yes, I am serious.
I know my best friend grew up in similar circumstances, and he even did a 3 year stint in foster homes after his single mom went to prison. Let me think....oh yeah, he has a BS and MS from Arizona State. Somehow, he managed to get into college, attend classes, and graduate twice.
My wife grew up small town poor, she has two degrees. Her siblings all grew up small town poor with her, and every single with one of them have degrees, successful lives, etc.
I know a lot of white people who come from very humble, if not wildly ignorant circumstances, and most of them did just fine in life. None of us went to Harvard, sure, but solid middle/upper class lives aplenty.
I am neither an exception nor exceptional. Just another poor white kid that society didn't hand a bunch of excuses for failure, so I had to survive somehow. There's tons of us. Really.
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