If these groups were so culturally superior, why are they all coming to the USA??
You would think if they had their shit together they'd stay put back home in their culturally superior homelands.
She's promoting a myth that's true of most immigrants in general as high achievers.
Ethnic groups who immigrate here arrive with knowledge any success they achieve here begins and ends with hard work.
But when you study the educational and economic demographics from their home countries, you realize this idea of cultural superiority is just that; a myth.
America is a country that rewards hard work academically and tunnel vision focus. If you're able to eliminate all the distractions that keep you from reaching your end goal, almost anyone can have a great deal of professional success.
She like most immigrants are benefiting from a political-social system that allows them to achieve that success, something that was denied to them in their home countries.
I find the ideas she's promoting to be dangerous.
I really get sick and tired of immigrants coming to this country, having no understanding of the history and arrogantly believing they are innately superior to American Black folk, which is one of her underlying arguments IMO.
Nigeria is fucked up. China is fucked up. India is fucked up. Iran is fucked up. Lebanon is fucked up. Cuba is fucked up.
No middle class and a cadre of ruling elites who hold all the wealth and power for a select few.
Is this woman even assimilated as an American citizen?? Or is she still a Chinese living in America, which IMO is how many immigrants view themselves.
Look down your nose somewhere else. Like where you came from.
Great post, andre.
And you're right, her ideas are dangerous, because they encourage an environment of spite and small-mindedness that can demoralize and frustrate those blacks that do aspire and struggle and sacrifice.
people who want to maintain the status quo of their "superior position" are often much more spiteful towards blacks that don't fit their little box of stereotypes and low expectations than they are to the ones who do.
Many will even try to "take the wind out of the sails" of your kids. That's a factor that's often discounted, but combined with the fact that blacks (black males in particular) have little social and societal support, I'll bet it does have an affect on the psyche
At least miss "tiger mom" didn't dredge up the ol' "bell curve" notions of "IQ"-- the darwinistic stuff they were peddling back in the nazi 90s. Although she does give a tacit endorsement of racism in citing the benefits of the "superiority complex" and "impulse control" :roll:
This book impresses me as the kindler, gentler face of "bell curve" darwinism, with nigerians and others thrown in to take the edge off the racism.
Why not instead just focus on those qualities of
individuals that make them successful? As andre said, if the cultural shit were true, the concentration of these folks in their home countries should make those places a paradise. So why not just tell us what goes into individual success instead of getting racial about it?
After all, if the purpose is to light a path, individuals can only improve themselves and their families. The shitty state of the bulk of folks "back home" vs the success of ms tiger mom only underscores that point. Tacitly casting aspersions on whole cultures ("inferior" vs "superior") only serves to condemn individuals from the "inferior" cultures who are struggling.
...And if lighting a path is not the point, then what is her point? To sell lots of books, while spreading racial nonsense?
As far as learning from her cultural examples goes, I think black folk should simply focus on education, education, education and independence, independence, independence. These things have no ethnicity or color. Buying into the notion that one group corners the market in any good qualities is stupid, and bad for your lil black kids.
Black folks should also swallow and digest the fact that nobody gives
a fuck about us, and most outsiders would prolly kill and eat us in a pinch. And that should inform how you protect your psyche, who you're willing to hand profit to, how on guard you should be when you mix with people, how much you value your economic independence, etc. etc.
...In other news -- Wait'll paniro gets ahold of this thread. Hope you guys won't indulge his trollishness too much
