So was it that > Journalists were praising Asians for being hard workers who kept their heads down, cherished education and didn’t complain ? Or maybe it was

So was it that > Journalists were praising Asians for being hard workers who kept their heads down, cherished education and didn’t complain ? Or maybe it was just that > Asians [were] being hard workers who kept their heads down, cherished education and didn’t complain. I'll go further than another top-level comment and say that embracing the first sentence unironically is being intentionally obtuse, given that one literally has to write the second sentence to get there. But it's the unsurprising consequence of a worldview that "hard work never gets anyone anywhere". Note that you don't have to reject the idea of privilege entirely in order to acknowledge that hard work is also a path to success; and this article goes to show that hard work and success is also a path to privilege, not [just] the other way around.