Rich Men North of Richmond
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Anonymous
Then how is it that Chinese immigrants who arrive poor, know zilch about American culture and don't speak English well manage to academically outperform not only blacks, but whites as well, and are able to do well with business and secure many well-paying jobs in our society? Language is not a common denominator. Nor is American culture. But specific aspects of culture, such as studying, working hard and taking responsibility for your own outcomes provide much bigger advantages than merely being white and speaking English do. |
Anonymous
Because most Chinese immigrants don’t arrive poor. They have enough funds to purchase plane tickets, attend visa interviews, etc. They tend to arrive in the United States with a secondary and post secondary education. Mainland Chinese “poor” never ever make it to the United States. Glad to help with that huge mystery! |
Anonymous
There has been tremendous change. Blacks haven't been slaves for 150 years. Blacks haven't been subjected to laws denying them equal opportunity for 50 years. There are many black families that recognized this and took advantage of every new opportunity handed to them and became part of the middle class and upper class. Similarly, black immigrants are able to take full advantage of every opportunity in our country and rapidly become part of the middle and upper class. But others are still mired in the past, held back by imaginary barriers that do not exist for other blacks, continually blaming history and everyone else rather than living in the present and seizing the opportunities and making a better life for themselves. The exact same happens with whites, whether in Appalachia, the rust belt and so on. Some saw the writing on the wall, the big coal mine closing, the steel mill closing, hundreds of jobs lost, so they picked up and found a new opportunity. But others stayed and became mired in the past, thinking that rather than them keeping up with changes in the world, somehow the world needs to slow down and change back to the way it was for them. It just doesn't work that way. And, these disaffected communities consider themselves to be fighters but the sad part is that they picked the wrong fight, the right fight was to keep up and stay relevant rather than fighting change and expecting the arc of the universe to bend around them. So now all they have left is to lash out in their own self-defeating and self-destructive ways. |
Anonymous
Ah yes, everyone but you was secretly handed hundreds of thousands of dollars. 
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Anonymous
There are not many recent Asian immigrants who were poor there and arrive poor here. I know a bunch who came as grad students, PhDs, and other professionals who are middle-class, educated, and benefited from networks that helped them navigate the US immigration system. None of them live in the Mississippi Delta or other Great American segregated poverty trap. Asians go straight to cities with large immigrant communities, where they aren’t shunned by their neighbors. If they want, they can buy a house and send their kids to neighborhood public school or private schools without their white neighbors selling their houses and moving to the exurbs or storming the school board to make sure no Asian history is taught and no Asian teachers are hired. |
Anonymous
PP above is quite crazy. He must know nothing about anti-Chinese discrimination for a century if not longer. Or the "Japs" being stolen of everything and sent to concentration camps by "hero" FDR. |
Anonymous
Explain plz |
Anonymous
And paid reparations. Don’t forget the reparations. |
Anonymous
You won't hear back from pp. What she said is false. There is at least one poster here who likes to make false claims like this without explanation then miraculously disappears and never responds with an explanation. Some people call this a "troll." I call them a liar. |
Anonymous
Nope. I was handed literally hundreds of thousands of dollars which is what it’s called when your parents fully fund your college and graduate work. That gift seems to have enabled me to understand the basic economics that surround preventing people from accessing resources available to others for centuries. |
Anonymous
Black or white or purple, you were born into wealth. Same as some black people, and unlike many white people. |
Anonymous
Unlike many people, full stop, but a higher proportion of white people, due to the deliberate action of the U.S government well into the lifetime of my parents. |
Anonymous
You think 50 years (in reality say 30-40 since it took a good 10-20 years for the intense racism and racist practices such as redlining to die down somewhat) is enough to overcome the several centuries of abject oppression? You think all those racists just disappeared with the passing of Civil Rights legislation, all those racists who wielded power in some way in terms of hiring and selling houses and on admissions committees just overnight decided to put their prejudices and bigotry behind and it was some kind of Ground Zero where everyone was equal and judged only by the content of their character? And that suddenly all Black students had schools that were equal in quality and infrastructure to the schools in majority white areas? And suddenly the poverty rate for blacks and whites was equalized? For real?? |
Anonymous
And unlike most black Americans. You forgot to add that. |
Anonymous
Grandma is savage. |