Re: White Folks
- From: El Castor <No_One@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:38:41 -0700
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:47:32 GMT, jim <jim10293@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:40:35 -0400, Thumper <jaylsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:20:07 -0700, El Castor <No_One@xxxxxxxx> wrote:Just why do you think things are the way you describe. Do you think
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:06:05 GMT, jim <jim10293@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Yes you do.
[Default] On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:05:49 -0700, El Castor
<No_One@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:55:25 GMT, jim <jim10293@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[Default] On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:02:55 -0700, El Castor
<No_One@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:45:55 -1000, "Jerry Okamura"
<okamuraj005@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Listening to what some black people think about this country, if I were a
white guy, I would be worried, because it seems to me, they place a whole
lot of the blame on their condition on you white folks.....
Maybe you should be worried. At least in the area where I live, Asians
are economically and academically successful, and when it comes to
education and business they are lumped together with Whites as members
of the same privileged class.
I'd feel comfortable with lots of them in my neighborhood. I doubt
Obama's grandmother would feel fearful walking down street and seening
a Asian guy.
As I've previously mentioned, San Francisco's Lowell High caters to
the brightest students. Three Chinese families sued to compel the
school district to admit students based strictly on ability, without
regard to race. They won, and overnight Hispanic enrollment declined,
and new Black enrollment dropped to almost nothing. Three years later
I read a sad lament by a left winger who complained that when she
looked out a window at Lowell she saw nothing but a vast see of White
faces. She couldn't admit, perhaps even to herself, that those faces
were mainly Asian. (-8
There is a reason.
But maybe not the reason you think. Those Asian values of family and
education are (I believe) just a byproduct of intelligence. The
average Chinese, Japanese, or Korean kid or parent is going to be 20%
- 25% smarter than an average black kid or parent.
I don't know and wonder if the spread is that wide. But, the spread
will account for much better results in whatever people decide to take
on.
But, black culture does not value education at all. They don't buy
their kids books or value teaching them to read as kids. There are
great many comparisons.
But, like all immigrants, I notice the first generation that arrives
from Asia will fight like hell to see their kids do well. Asian kids
do very well in school. But, by third generation, it ain't all
peaches and cream Jeff. The motivation to take the hard course is not
there and mediocre result closer to what what the average white
American in course and career paths results.
Also, great difference between different parts of Asia. Philipinos
and Indonesians are not doing as great as those in China, Japan,
Korea. Also, kids in Japan and Taiwan are not all that motivated any
more. Kids hanging out on corner and laying on their asses is very
common and growing in at least those two nations.
Respect for traditional morality in Asia is what the backbone of their
success is from my observation. Wonder what Jim Higgins thinks?
Regardless of generation, Asians are more economically successful than
Blacks. It's an obvious and undeniable fact. I retired from a job as a
network installer and administrator. My co-workers, and class mates in
the frequent classes I took, were largely Asian. Not an accident.
There is an interesting report that I read this morning concerning a
63 year old Israeli mathematician, Avraham Trakhtman, who just solved
a problem that has stumped mathematicians all over the world for the
last 38 years. It's also no coincidence that guy worked in Israel and
not the Congo. I don't mean to be racist,
I'm just observing what we
all know, but would rather not confront.
that blacks are just lazy? Are they not capable of learning. Tell us
your thoughts.
Thumper
Not sure who you are asking. There is no way I think blacks are just
lazy. Read some biographies of many blacks and think on those blacks
I know that are successful. There is nothing genetically that would
suggest any particular group is more or less inclined to work hard.
Clarence Thomas describes his grandfather's hard life or rising early
and working from dawn to dusk. His grandmother as well. Thomas is
also example of hard work and very keen intelligence.
The difference I believe begins in what happens early in a child's
life. What are the examples around them and what activities do they
become engaged in. Kids are very much a copy of those early years. If
nobody reads, the kids is unlikely to have a world opened to them.
Thomas read which allowed him to realize a world far beyond the Jim
Crow world. Ayaan Hirsi Ali read great literature in her youth in
Somalia, Kenya, Saudia Arabia, and Ethiopia which opened her eyes to a
world beyond the prison women live in in Islamic world.
I don't buy that stuff of a few points on intelligence tests as
deciding success or failure in life. The brilliant have advantages
but are not destined for succeess without the investments of their
parents, teachers, ministers, and others.
Sadly, the black culture in America does not value much of the
elements of academic, employment, and such and their kids are cheated
therefore.
If you don't like it, do something for a child and don't let race
pimps like Wright poison their minds that they are victims.
Sorry, but it's just a fact that there are genetic differences in
intelligence. As groups go, Ashkenazi Jews are the smartest people on
the planet -- but Sephardic Jews are not so bright. Take a look at any
list of Nobel prize winner and Jewish names predominate. Next come
East Asians -- Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. Then Western European
Caucasians. Ranking a little below Caucasians are the Indians of
Mexico and Central America and Arabs. Barely hanging on the bottom
rung of the ladder are the Blacks of central and southern Africa.
Those are of course averages. There are always going to be people
beating the averages, and these days many of us have a mixture of
genes. On average, given a level playing field, those with more brains
will tend to be more economically successful, and why not? Just the
way it is. It's not fair, but who said life is fair?
.
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