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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But there are a lot of ingredients to *success* besides hard work, such as:

- willingness to take risks,
- thinking outside the box, and
- good social skills [/quote]

- willingness to take risks: translation - always have families to fall back on => advantage, rich white people
- thinking outside the box: translation - always have families to worry about "inside the box" for you => advantage, rich white people
- good social skills: translation - always have family ties to build on the 'social skills' => advantage, rich white people

no, it's not about which races have which qualities.[/quote]

Honestly, this is BS. I think you know it, too.

If you want, we can play this game a totally different way:

- willingness to take risks: translation - willingness to go broke => disadvantage, rich white people who want to preserve their assets so they can stay on top of the heap

- thinking outside the box: translation - always have families to worry about "inside the box" for you => advantage ... I dunno because this makes no sense. What does "have families to worry about 'inside the box' for you" even mean? It's gibberish. One thing I do know is that nailing your butt to a desk chair is not conducive to thinking outside the box. So if your argument is that familial support helps, I'd argue that the type of familial support that involves nailing a kid's butt to the desk chair is the [i]opposite [/i]of helpful.

- good social skills: translation - always have family ties to build on the 'social skills' => advantage, anyone with social skills. I feel sorry for you if you think only rich white people have good social skills.[/quote]

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