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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
America has never been a meritocracy. If you were white, male, rich, you started off way ahead of others. [/quote]

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

[b]The current working generation of Asians had fairly poor parents.[/b]

Is it possible that it's still a meritocracy (more or less) but you just don't have as much merit as you think?[/quote]
Pretty wrong. Many came from upper middle class or wealthy Chinese and Indian families.[/quote]

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. [/quote]
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…)[/quote]

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