First-time college enrollment is falling fast; down more than 5% last year

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Anonymous wrote:The American Dream is over. America is no longer a meritocracy where through hard work you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps and make a future for you and your family.

America has never been a meritocracy. If you were white, male, rich, you started off way ahead of others.

Then how did Asian women end up ahead of white men in terms of income? And Asian men are higher than that.

The current working generation of Asians had fairly poor parents.

Is it possible that it's still a meritocracy (more or less) but you just don't have as much merit as you think?

Pretty wrong. Many came from upper middle class or wealthy Chinese and Indian families.

There are also many children of Nigerian and Caribbean island families who do very well in this country, in addition to Asian kids. And there are gazillions of white kids who are stuck in generational poverty. The systemic racism charge grows more tired with each passing year. It's not 1925.

Your point? Those Nigerian and Caribbean families are also pretty wealthy or coming from privileged households- that’s how our immigration system works. We don’t bring in random immigrants who aren’t going to succeed in our country; and when we do, we deport them and call them terrible things (looking at the Haitian community…)

Thank you for saying this about the Haitian community, people really have their heads in the sand thinking that the bigotry and discrimination of 1925 is not alive and well in many places. People could have pointed to Madame CJ Walker in 1925 and said the same thing folks say now about Oprah (“how can there be a problem if Madame CJ Walker is a millionaire”)
As if you can’t have exceptions or success stories while also still having a systemic problem.