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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]

- willingness to take risks: translation - I am poor and have nothing to lose and nowhere to go but up => advantage, all of us less priveleged folks who pulled ourselves up by our own bootstraps, out of poverty through education, never giving up, and never believing we only deserved what was at the bottom
- thinking outside the box: translation - We have spent a lifetime having to do things differently, [i]because[/i] we did not have much, were the children of immigrants, lived in poverty, etc., so we know that the "normal" path is not the only path to success => advantage, smart poor people and immigrants
- good social skills: translation - have a natural understanding and empathy towards others, know that being upper class does not mean that you have class, able to treat everyone, from the poorest to the richest with dignity and respect, face life with good humor => advantage, people who are blessed with a good sense of self, awareness of life, and high EQ

Rich/white is irrelevant if you have these qualities.[/quote]

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