[OT] WSJ: “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”

[EconProf]

A lot of the ethnic conclusions we are making are due to the self-selection aspect of immigration. The personality of those who emmigrate differs from those who stay, leading to erroneous conclusions about nationality being overly important. The Chinese are the entrepreneurial class in much of southeast Asia, but they were the adventuresome and ambitious ones who took chances by leaving their homeland. Economist Thomas Sowell has written a lot about the economic success of Jamaicans, Cubans, and others from the Carribean who find prosperity in NYC. In our southwest, OTOH, we attract the poorest, least-educated Mexicans and Central Americans that are not representative of most citizens of their home countries.

[briansd1]

[quote=nocommonsense] I despise Affirmative Action, a travesty of justice.[/quote]

Affirmative Action is not good for Asians wanting to enter the best universities.

But in the interest of social justice, it is necessary or even efficacious to have specialist doctors who got the best grades in school treating everyday ailments in the inner city or the rural South? No. we don’t need the best doctors, we need caring doctors who can relate to and want to live among the patients they treat.

For bioinformatics, brain surgery, heart surgery and the like, we need the best and brighest.

[briansd1]

[quote=nocommonsense] I despise Affirmative Action, a travesty of justice.[/quote]

Affirmative Action is not good for Asians wanting to enter the best universities.

But in the interest of social justice, it is necessary or even efficacious to have specialist doctors who got the best grades in school treating everyday ailments in the inner city or the rural South? No. we don’t need the best doctors, we need caring doctors who can relate to and want to live among the patients they treat.

For bioinformatics, brain surgery, heart surgery and the like, we need the best and brighest.

[briansd1]

[quote=nocommonsense] I despise Affirmative Action, a travesty of justice.[/quote]

Affirmative Action is not good for Asians wanting to enter the best universities.

But in the interest of social justice, it is necessary or even efficacious to have specialist doctors who got the best grades in school treating everyday ailments in the inner city or the rural South? No. we don’t need the best doctors, we need caring doctors who can relate to and want to live among the patients they treat.

For bioinformatics, brain surgery, heart surgery and the like, we need the best and brighest.

[briansd1]

[quote=nocommonsense] I despise Affirmative Action, a travesty of justice.[/quote]

Affirmative Action is not good for Asians wanting to enter the best universities.

But in the interest of social justice, it is necessary or even efficacious to have specialist doctors who got the best grades in school treating everyday ailments in the inner city or the rural South? No. we don’t need the best doctors, we need caring doctors who can relate to and want to live among the patients they treat.

For bioinformatics, brain surgery, heart surgery and the like, we need the best and brighest.

[briansd1]

[quote=nocommonsense] I despise Affirmative Action, a travesty of justice.[/quote]

Affirmative Action is not good for Asians wanting to enter the best universities.

But in the interest of social justice, it is necessary or even efficacious to have specialist doctors who got the best grades in school treating everyday ailments in the inner city or the rural South? No. we don’t need the best doctors, we need caring doctors who can relate to and want to live among the patients they treat.

For bioinformatics, brain surgery, heart surgery and the like, we need the best and brighest.

[ctr70]

I thought that was a GREAT article! One that we all can learn a lot from. About having high standards. The U.S. is way too politically correct now and we need much more tough love in our society like that. We got soft in the 1960’s with the rise of political correctness.

What I also like about it is…Chinese mothers don’t make any excuses like the usual far left garbage in the U.S….no excuses like “we need more Gov funding”, “we need more hand-outs”, “we need more affirmative action”. Their success is from a four letter word, called WORK. Hard work. Sacrifice. And it’s from PARENTS INVOLVEMENT with their kids, not relying on “Government funding” or “Government programs” to make their kids do better in school.

Asians are 4% of the U.S population but 25%+ of the Ivy League enrollment and 25%+ of the medical school classes in the U.S. UC Berkeley (and UC San Diego) would probably be 80%+ Asian if they got rid of affirmative action and went purely off test scores and grades. I always thought this as a great counter arguement to the a lot of the mumbo jumbo that the U.S. system is skewed towards white males and minorities get the shaft. That statistic shows hard work, not race is the key ingredient in success in the U.S.

And by the way, I am not Asian.

[ctr70]

I thought that was a GREAT article! One that we all can learn a lot from. About having high standards. The U.S. is way too politically correct now and we need much more tough love in our society like that. We got soft in the 1960’s with the rise of political correctness.

What I also like about it is…Chinese mothers don’t make any excuses like the usual far left garbage in the U.S….no excuses like “we need more Gov funding”, “we need more hand-outs”, “we need more affirmative action”. Their success is from a four letter word, called WORK. Hard work. Sacrifice. And it’s from PARENTS INVOLVEMENT with their kids, not relying on “Government funding” or “Government programs” to make their kids do better in school.

Asians are 4% of the U.S population but 25%+ of the Ivy League enrollment and 25%+ of the medical school classes in the U.S. UC Berkeley (and UC San Diego) would probably be 80%+ Asian if they got rid of affirmative action and went purely off test scores and grades. I always thought this as a great counter arguement to the a lot of the mumbo jumbo that the U.S. system is skewed towards white males and minorities get the shaft. That statistic shows hard work, not race is the key ingredient in success in the U.S.

And by the way, I am not Asian.

[ctr70]

I thought that was a GREAT article! One that we all can learn a lot from. About having high standards. The U.S. is way too politically correct now and we need much more tough love in our society like that. We got soft in the 1960’s with the rise of political correctness.

What I also like about it is…Chinese mothers don’t make any excuses like the usual far left garbage in the U.S….no excuses like “we need more Gov funding”, “we need more hand-outs”, “we need more affirmative action”. Their success is from a four letter word, called WORK. Hard work. Sacrifice. And it’s from PARENTS INVOLVEMENT with their kids, not relying on “Government funding” or “Government programs” to make their kids do better in school.

Asians are 4% of the U.S population but 25%+ of the Ivy League enrollment and 25%+ of the medical school classes in the U.S. UC Berkeley (and UC San Diego) would probably be 80%+ Asian if they got rid of affirmative action and went purely off test scores and grades. I always thought this as a great counter arguement to the a lot of the mumbo jumbo that the U.S. system is skewed towards white males and minorities get the shaft. That statistic shows hard work, not race is the key ingredient in success in the U.S.

And by the way, I am not Asian.

[ctr70]

I thought that was a GREAT article! One that we all can learn a lot from. About having high standards. The U.S. is way too politically correct now and we need much more tough love in our society like that. We got soft in the 1960’s with the rise of political correctness.

What I also like about it is…Chinese mothers don’t make any excuses like the usual far left garbage in the U.S….no excuses like “we need more Gov funding”, “we need more hand-outs”, “we need more affirmative action”. Their success is from a four letter word, called WORK. Hard work. Sacrifice. And it’s from PARENTS INVOLVEMENT with their kids, not relying on “Government funding” or “Government programs” to make their kids do better in school.

Asians are 4% of the U.S population but 25%+ of the Ivy League enrollment and 25%+ of the medical school classes in the U.S. UC Berkeley (and UC San Diego) would probably be 80%+ Asian if they got rid of affirmative action and went purely off test scores and grades. I always thought this as a great counter arguement to the a lot of the mumbo jumbo that the U.S. system is skewed towards white males and minorities get the shaft. That statistic shows hard work, not race is the key ingredient in success in the U.S.

And by the way, I am not Asian.

[ctr70]

I thought that was a GREAT article! One that we all can learn a lot from. About having high standards. The U.S. is way too politically correct now and we need much more tough love in our society like that. We got soft in the 1960’s with the rise of political correctness.

What I also like about it is…Chinese mothers don’t make any excuses like the usual far left garbage in the U.S….no excuses like “we need more Gov funding”, “we need more hand-outs”, “we need more affirmative action”. Their success is from a four letter word, called WORK. Hard work. Sacrifice. And it’s from PARENTS INVOLVEMENT with their kids, not relying on “Government funding” or “Government programs” to make their kids do better in school.

Asians are 4% of the U.S population but 25%+ of the Ivy League enrollment and 25%+ of the medical school classes in the U.S. UC Berkeley (and UC San Diego) would probably be 80%+ Asian if they got rid of affirmative action and went purely off test scores and grades. I always thought this as a great counter arguement to the a lot of the mumbo jumbo that the U.S. system is skewed towards white males and minorities get the shaft. That statistic shows hard work, not race is the key ingredient in success in the U.S.

And by the way, I am not Asian.

[IT.MOM]

I believe children definitely need the “pushes”. I know a Chinese Mom who sits with her 7 year old kid on the piano forte every night for one hour no matter how busy she is, no wonder the kid becomes such a musical prodigy. This website talks alot about investment. And I think children is my biggest investment in my life.

[IT.MOM]

I believe children definitely need the “pushes”. I know a Chinese Mom who sits with her 7 year old kid on the piano forte every night for one hour no matter how busy she is, no wonder the kid becomes such a musical prodigy. This website talks alot about investment. And I think children is my biggest investment in my life.

[IT.MOM]

I believe children definitely need the “pushes”. I know a Chinese Mom who sits with her 7 year old kid on the piano forte every night for one hour no matter how busy she is, no wonder the kid becomes such a musical prodigy. This website talks alot about investment. And I think children is my biggest investment in my life.

[IT.MOM]

I believe children definitely need the “pushes”. I know a Chinese Mom who sits with her 7 year old kid on the piano forte every night for one hour no matter how busy she is, no wonder the kid becomes such a musical prodigy. This website talks alot about investment. And I think children is my biggest investment in my life.

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