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> I think it's because the idea of culture is deeply offensive to individualistic Americans. These studies often break down when looking at the same data broke
by 908B64B197 3y ago
> I think it's because the idea of culture is deeply offensive to individualistic Americans.
These studies often break down when looking at the same data broken down by racial groups because it simply can't explain Asian-American scores. Poor Asian immigrant households fare much better than other races at the same socio-economic level, so much so that certain authors have started to use the term "white adjacent" [0] to get around the issue.
[0] https://www.newsweek.com/critical-race-theory-has-no-idea-what-do-asian-americans-opinion-1608984 https://www.newsweek.com/critical-race-theory-has-no-idea-wh...