The Model Minority

Submitted by Roger Barris via Acting-Man.com,

Ivy League: Perfect Scores not Good Enough for the “Wrong Race”

The Economist has run a lengthy article about Asian-Americans.  It begins with a description of Michael Wang, who had a perfect score in his college entrance (ACT) exams, who was ranked second academically out of 1,002 students at his high school, who was part of a chorus that performed at Barack Obama’s inauguration, who came in third place in a national piano championship, who was in the top 150 in a national mathematics competition, and who was in several national debating-competition finals.  Michael was rejected by six out of the seven Ivy League schools to which he applied.  Like many other members of this “model minority,” he is no longer willing to take this quietly.

Michael Wang: too Asian and too perfect for the Ivy League schools. This is a typical example of modern-day socialism’s drive to allegedly “equalize opportunity”, a heading under which the incentive to make an effort to actually accomplish something in life is slowly but surely deadened among those showing the best abilities. Over time, it leads to decay in the population’s morals and intelligence, until you end up with a nation best compared to a ship of fools.

Asian-Americans have suffered systematic discrimination, including as recently as World War II when 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned in camps as potential “fifth columnists” while no similar actions were taken against Americans of German or Italian ancestry.

The article points out that the worst single incident of lynching in American history was actually directed against Chinese immigrants, when 17 were murdered in 1871.  Yet, as anyone who has walked the campuses of MIT, Caltech, Harvard or Stanford, or any other top-flight university, can attest, Asian-Americans are massively represented (44% of the recent incoming class at Caltech, which is routinely rated the number one school in the world).

This is despite explicit discrimination which means that, as estimated by two Princeton academics, Asian-Americans need a Scholastic Aptitude Test (“SAT”) score about 140 points higher than a white candidate in order to be admitted to a private university, whereas African-Americans can have a result that is 310 points lower in order gain the same result.

Americans of Japanese ancestry are loaded on a train on their way to a concentr… sorry, internment camp in WW2.

And two University of Michigan researchers have produced a study which shows the difference is down to nothing more than hard work: they followed 6,000 white and Asian children from toddler through school.  They found small differences in initial cognitive abilities and the socioeconomic status of parents, but sizable gaps in effort that eventually produce large differences in academic results.

After years of avoiding the issue, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Abigail Fisher versus the University of Texas in its next session.  Ms Fisher, who is white, is suing UT over its affirmative action policies which she claims unfairly denied her a position.  Her suit is backed by an amicus curiae brief submitted on behalf of 117 Asian-American organizations.  This follows a lawsuit by a group of Asian students against Harvard and the University of North Carolina.  Here is the gist of Harvard’s defense in this suit:

“…a class that is diverse on multiple dimensions, including on race, transforms the educational experience of students from every background and prepares our graduates for an increasingly pluralistic world…”

I suppose that this argument could be used to support the admission of almost anyone, including a few utter imbeciles since they too are part of our “pluralistic world,” although I think that Harvard restricts this policy to its professorial staff.

But more importantly, what is the message that this sends for both over- and under-achieving students?  What does it teach our young about the relative merits of individual hard work versus political machinations?  And, from a strictly economic perspective, what are the implications of this for American success when we deliberately hinder investment in our most promising human capital?

I have previously quoted Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts on this subject: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discrimination on the basis of race.”  Let’s hope that he follows through in the Abigail Fisher case and that Justice Kennedy joins him, since we can reliable expect that the “Gang of Four” (Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayer and Kagan) will march in lock step to whatever nonsense Obama’s Department of Justice puts forth in defense of this indefensible practice.

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Comments

[Lupe the long]

Perhaps the reason Mr. Wang wasn't admitted was because the Ivy League Admissions actually read current events:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/28/china-nationals-cheating-...  or  http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/06/07/battle-to-thwart-sat-cheat...

Ever wonder why that Asian kid with the perfect SAT scores in English and Math can seldom communicate beyond a first grade level - its because a professional test taker faked his scores for money.  And you Anglophiles are out of the loop when said minorities joke about gaming your system.  Actual minorities see it all and wonder when you will wake up.  Never, I guess.

Truth is, lying, cheating and stealing are all as American as Apple pie - just like the innure statement that the worst lynching was just 17 Chinese in 1871.  You must not read American history.  That distinction goes to the good people of Tulsa, OK.  During segregation, America set aside Black Townships, with Tulsa containing "Little Africa" which comprised a prideful and educated class of Blacks (& Native Americans). Jealous that Blacks built our own Wall St, even buying private aircraft, in 1921 The "White League" became incesed and burned it to the ground - lynching over 3,000 blacks in the process.

Now The Economist (& Zerohedge) continue to propagate lies and disinformation intended to subvert the truth - anything to incite you all to hate the blacks and look to the cheating, lying Chinese as 'Model Minorities'.  I recognize only a small percentage of whites share the racist vitriole on this site. This gullible few complicate all our lives immeasurably.  But keep it up - success is the best revenge.  

[TongueStun]

DEMOCRATS SHIT ON MLK'S DREAM AND PISS ON HIS GRAVE

.....unless one of you racist trash pieces of DEMOCRAT SHIT can explain how Affirmative Action judges kneegrows on the content of their character, and NOT on the color of their skin.....

DEMOCRATS, REWARDING FAILURE AND PENALIZING SUCCESS....SINCE 1964

Asians...welcome to the white man's world....

[Praeda2]

Oh come on... this has got to be satire, no? The eff is wrong with you Yankee twats? Young Mr. Wang is the academic Lebron James and there's no interest? haha and these are the top universities? fuuuuuuuuck. You bitchez are DOOMED.

[Monetas]

Brick and Mortar Board schools .... harm the environment .... home schooling and on line .... safer and you learn more .... without all the expense and wasted time .... the University of Zero Hedge is a start ?

[Keyboard Kommando]

And they have to let in unqualified niggers who counldn't otherwise get into their local community college!

[22winmag]

What's next?

Female fighter pilots who can't handle the g-forces that men can handle, causing them to crash into the carriers they are attempting to land on?

[frankly scarlet]

The author conflates seeking to equalize opportunity with mediocre and equal end results as too typical of the ideologue seeking to justify one system over another. If you do not equalize opportunity a Mozart, Darwin or a Mendelbrot might never live long enough or develop their genius. The best and brightest will more than on average rise to the top if given the opportunity, but how much genius has been snuffed out in the third world we will never know? Under the rules attributed to attaining the top position a particular system may end up promoting socio or psychopaths as the "best" depending on the system parameters. Are Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein.or G H W Bush our best and brightest, or would we consider others like Mahatma Ghandi, MLK or Steven Hawking more worthy of the title?  What if a Ghandi had succeeded to the head of J.P. Morgan?

[thebigunit]

Kagan?  Breyer?  Ginsburg?

Affirmative action?

Well, well, well.

Sounds to me like a good case for these justices to recuse themselves.

[natxlaw]

From my understanding, 5 decades ago, when the Jewish girls that became the pillars of the modern feminist movement, went through the Ivy leages, there was a great deal of "anti-semitism." (I don't want to hear any smartasses say that all middle easterners are semites so note the quotes) Non-jewish white chicks who went through at the same time felt supported and encouraged by their male counterparts. It's possible that the descrimination these women like Steinam experienced at these schools was for a different reason then the chocked it up to, but that would not allow them to "represent" over half of the population.

Now it looks like the Asians are getting the same treatment from the Jews that run those places. I have other thoughts on this matter however. 

If I were running a school, my goal would be for the school, my organization, to be as succesful as possible. To do this, I would want to bring in as much $$$ as possible. Money comes from successful alumni.

Given that this is the case: my first choice is going to be the children of top 1%-ers. If their parents have donated 50K a year and sent them to a boarding school that charges the same, and I know they have 200K a year to give away to non-profits (buy friends with what otherwise would be their tax dollars), that is who I am after for choice #1. Any girl or boy in this category who got through highschool without failing a class outright, and who took a few advance classes would be first on my list.

Now for what Harvard calls the "need blind" portion of the students: here I want people that who look like they are going to be successful in life. It is a well known fact of life, that A students make more money than C students the first year out of school, but that 10 years later, C students out-earn A students on average. There are very few places in the world where a person can be successful by hiding in books and avoiding social interaction. The new World Trade Center was not built by one man, one business, or source of funding: almost everything we do as humans is built on cooperation. The problem with academics as a measure, especially high-school academics, is that it ignores these fundemental principals. THE FACT THAT SOMEONE CAN GET 100 questions right the first time, that are within the understanding of most people, who get say 80 right, because he spent 20hrs preparing while everyone else spent 4 hours, does not translate to someone who is going to stand out when everyone is subjected to a 10 hour work day. Slavelike focus to rote learning can also be an indicator that someone lacks the capacity for creative and independent thought. Cooperation and independent thought are probably the two best indicators of someone who will be massively successful without inheriting it. To be massively successful you have to find a niche, then you have to be able to leverage other people to exploit it.

Now you better believe, Harvard, and every other Ivy Leauge school, has tallied up exactly how much money they have made on every perfect score Asian kid with 2 high school activities (where of course he was national champ in one because few people cared about it). The top schools have had a few decades to figure out how generous this group of newcomers are as alums. Believe me, if accepting a perfect score Asian student was the ticket getting a donation of 200K+ to the university over that person's career, they would all be getting fought over. 

My personal impression of the parents of the Asian overachiever kid, they are very fond of the concept of EARN, but not so much of the concept of PAY, and it would not surprise me if the Ivies have figured this out. I also do not want my kids having to compete with kids that are spending 3 times as much time as I think they should studying, just because their parents do not respect my culture and want their kid to be "better" than my kid. The folks who are really getting the short end of this stick are the Asians who are not participating in this highly dubious subculture.

In the fundementals of learning, which is what school is supposed to be about rather than test scores, there is a concept called a discrimination metric. This basically means that a measure is good if it separates the members of the group out. The Asian "overachiever" culture may just have exposed our grading and testing system for what it has always been, a poor discrimination metric for ultimate success.