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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Downward mobility. It’s brutal. It’s not even about what you do or don’t have, it’s knowing what you’re missing. [/quote]

One thing I’ve noticed is that it hits white gentiles way more than Asians or Jews.

Hispanics and blacks seem in general to be upwardly mobile.

Jews and Asians maintain or are above or slightly below.

White gentile parents definitely don’t talk to their kids seriously about downward mobility risks like Jewish and Asian parents do and it shows years later

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They do too. WTF are you talking about? Sounds more like some bigoted dig. [/quote]

No. Not really. This actually came up in the school and teens sub-forum before when some other op (who was an immigrant) why white umc locals didn’t push their kids and were cool with them coasting [/quote]

I'm Jewish. Generally speaking, immigrants of all ethnicities likely have an overrepresented genetic predisposition to be more restless, less satisfied with the status quo and a greater willingness to take risks. This is a great fitness payoff in the larger, evolutionary context, but has plenty of drawbacks at the personal level. Until these populations experience a high enough degree of genetic assimilation (which for non-orthodox U.S. Jews will likely happen within the next couple of generations if it hasn't happened already), you're going to more easily identify these sorts of differences between groups. I don't think it's fundamentally bigoted to notice and try to explain differences between ethnic groups if you can do it dispassionately, but humans aren't great at this b/c we are a status-obsessed species.[/quote]

This has been happening with jews.

In fact, there have been several jewish journalists discussing the downward mobility they’ve personally experienced. [/quote]

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