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Interestingly, both of you highlight other factors aside from your ethnic background as the main reason for success or failure. So then, what is the difference
by joyeuse6701 13y ago
Interestingly, both of you highlight other factors aside from your ethnic background as the main reason for success or failure. So then, what is the difference between white and east Asians vs black/latino/south east Asians?
(I add the split between Asian groups because there is definitely a difference in prosperity)
- Denzel 13y agoGood question. It's one that puzzles me every day. While my ethnic background appears to have had no bearing on my life, it most certainly affected my parents' lives.
- bluedino 13y ago>> While my ethnic background appears to have had no bearing on my life Of course it has. You have to realize that everyone you encounter in your life is going to judge you differently based on your height, weight, clothes, skin color, hairstyle, and even your name. When you go for a job interview or on a sales call, people are going to have pre-concieved notions and their judgement affected by the name on your email signature. If you're 'Tom Gomez' or 'Dave Johnson' you're going to have pretty good head start over someone named 'Alejandra DeJesus Valtierra' or 'Wumi Hassan Abdullah'. If you're good and you can get past that, people don't care. You'll become 'my friend Hassan', or 'I know that guy with the dreads, I should introduce you'. But as unfair as it is, and it shouldn't be, it does affect first impressions. We're all guilty of it.
- bluedino 13y agoYour typical 'successful' Asian student most likely had the stereotypical strict Asian parents who placed school success very highly. Obviously all the parents aren't like that and you get Asian kids who join gangs and such.