"Amy Chua, the “tiger mother” who launched a thousand panic attacks among ambitious but lenient parents, is back with an almost great book about why some groups achieve spectacular success in America while others languish. Written with her husband Jed Rubenfeld (both are law professors at Yale), The Triple Package examines a number of groups who’ve succeeded in this country and advances a thesis about why groups (and nations) prosper or decline.
The success of Asian-American immigrants (this includes people from China, Japan, Korea, and India principally) is legendary. Less familiar is the bounding achievement of Nigerian immigrants. Though they account for only 0.7 percent of the black American population, they comprised 25 percent of the blacks at Harvard Business School last year. Nigerian immigrants are estimated to be 10 percent of America’s black physicians. The average family income of Nigerian immigrants is not only above the black average, but above the national average as well.
Thanks for the link. And why we don't give much credence to schooling unless required for their profession when backing young entrepreneurs. We look at their activities in middle/high school which often speaks to their grit. Grit then usually plays into their success later.
From the article:
The Chua-Rubenfeld thesis is consistent with the latest social-science trends. Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania wrote an influential paper suggesting that grit, not IQ, was the best predictor of success. The authors cycle back several times to the “marshmallow study,” which found that small children who could resist eating a marshmallow for 15 minutes on the promise of getting another were more likely to have life success than their more impulsive peers. Asian Americans, they argue, succeed not because they have higher IQs, but because they spend less time watching TV, playing soccer, and hanging out at the mall, and more time drilling their times tables, practicing their violins, and reading. The authors’ insistence that Asian IQs are no higher than others is debatable. But they are certainly right to highlight the research showing that Asian students with an IQ of 103 get higher grades than white students with the same IQ.
Too bad parents don't take the lead and instill this in their children, like Dr. Ben Carson's mother did in spite of where they lived and how easy it would have been to move to a life of crime.
This isn't news. Legal immigrants has always been more passionate about education and starting their own businesses than native Americans. I think legal immigration from all over the world should be expanded. The best and brightest want to come here, lets make it easier.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Yeah, you guys are total cowards- Scared of everything,the are's enemies everywhere and boogie men behind every bush...We jail more people that China, a totalitarian state with 3 times our population and everytime there's a skirmish in the world its WW3 to you rightwingnuts..
Vice Lord wrote: Yeah, you guys are total cowards- Scared of everything,the are's enemies everywhere and boogie men behind every bush...We jail more people that China, a totalitarian state with 3 times our population and everytime there's a skirmish in the world its WW3 to you rightwingnuts..
Guys.. All we have to fear, is fear itself
Um, read the article. The only person bringing up fear is you.
Vice Lord wrote: Yeah, you guys are total cowards- Scared of everything,the are's enemies everywhere and boogie men behind every bush...We jail more people that China, a totalitarian state with 3 times our population and everytime there's a skirmish in the world its WW3 to you rightwingnuts..
Guys.. All we have to fear, is fear itself
Um, read the article. The only person bringing up fear is you.
Oh..Well - I apologize
On a different note then, America is no longer the home of the Brave. We are a country of cowards. We spend everything we got on defense and security and everyday some rightwingnut here brings up another threat, as if we should all be afraid. The preppers, the food hoarders, the bunker builders....Its just all so absurd to me
lol
Oops, guess you will see some interesting types on your doorstep VL if they need one. I hope you don't have the ammo taped to it. BTW haven't seen the pic but nice choice.
HEARTLESS wrote: So says the guy that posts pictures of his(?) AR-15 with a "$1,000 scope." You're like a turd in a whirlpool, you just keep coming back around.
