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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This conversation is taking me back.   I spent most of my junior year in high school practicing for a local (major metropolitan area) music  competition which I didn't win.  I was a finalist, but the girl that won had parents who had literally rigged the competition in her favor. Every one else had to perform works from a certain repertoire list -- except her.  She showed up and played different music and apparently her parents had made a deal with the university that hosted the competition and the judges because she "needed to win" this competition in order to get into a conservatory and the rest of us were just little Asian kids who wanted to go to medical school, so you know . . .

What I remember was her entitlement, even after the scheme was uncovered -- like of course this prize should have been given to her and not to us poor kids who actually practiced.  I remember being really bitter that I had given up so much.  I didn't go on vacation with my family at Christmas but stayed home to practice.  I didn't go to the prom because I wanted to stay home and practice.  And this entitled girl didn't miss out on a single activity, not a prom or a vacation.

I got over it, but always assumed it was a bug, not a feature of American life.  Kind of sad to realize that indeed the deck has always been stacked against us hard working Joes and that there is an entire group of people who believe that the rules don't apply to them, because they don't.[/quote]

That's really unfortunate. I remember being a senior at a local nova high school and a friend of mine who was white was pissed and made it known that this asian guy got into the IVY and she was waitlisted. They both had the same grades, but she chose a very general path (bio) and he chose some astrophysics path. Her entitlement really bothered me. [/quote]

The deck is pretty much stacked against all of us (no matter which ethnicity) who work, stive, and compete against one another in a supposed "meritocracy." Maybe even be inspired to unnecessarily disliked each other because one of us has to "lose."

And then in comes the people with the money, and they bribe or donate their way to the top. Too bad little people, you should be happy with the crumbs you have to fight each other for. [/quote]

I guess you could look at it that way, but not going to an IVY is not the end of the world. [/quote]

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