If you must know, I lost out on the role to be tree #6 in the 2009 broadway musical Chicago, and have been seethingly envious of extra's ever since.
I figured it was something along the lines of that, or looking at your cover photo and rejecting you on the spot.
A lot of big talk seems par for the course. Not used to someone being game for it? Perhaps your half truths, blantant lies, and massive ego haven't prepared you someone with a rare bias. The same biases that render your "Law" of Least Effort a mere generalization that would work if people didn't have a uniquily formed dispositions compelling them to be exceptions. Like a Wall Street banker using an expected utility hypothesis to guess how people react, and are generally correct until everything blows up in their face when they inevitabley don't follow the expected path. And your aptitude scores have as much weight as your the theory you chose to sell as law.
Ronny sucks. Even typing that is boring effort. I read one last year about the decline of qualified male applicants to better unis. It didn't mention race. Yes, the admissions process is adjusting accordingly to make the environment more "diverse". I mean...who's gonna run the frat parties? Nerds?? It's been going on since I was in college 10 years ago. Part of the reason why there's so many Asians in California campuses is because Pete Wilson signed Prop 209 and eliminated Affirmative Action in 96. By the time I studied there, there were already complaints about the system being "overflooded with Asians", which prompted some "tweaks" years after I graduated. I don't mind policies that encourage diversity or Affirmative Action, but Asians statistically get the shaft on both sides of the debate. One, we're not counted as a minority in quotas or other artificially manufactured diversity schemes. Hell, there's a free license to trash us because of our "model minority status". Two, the glass ceiling for Asians is lower/as low as other minority groups despite our proportion to the white collar workforce. Three, the idea of a "poor Asian" seems preposterous despite the fact that many are on the dole and live in squalor or slave-like conditions. I can understand that #2 has a cultural aspect to it, but if we're talking about culture, I don't want to even talk about its treatment in the mainstream media...
A lot of oversensitive minorities are bleeding all over this thread and victimizing themselves instead of taking the criticism in stride. If you're a Chinaman/Asian American who doesn't get into his uni of choice, go to the next one. You'll have an easier time setting the curve. Education isn't just about GPA and SAT scores, as pointed out in this post, probably one of the best I've ever seen in the D&D. Innovation. Laughter. Managing others. Sex appeal. There's more to life than quantitative bottom lines and these qualities allow people to live it. Until "high performing" minorities can prove themselves in the people management category, instead of nesting away in libraries behind computers 24/7, the system will cater to who it needs to cater to. http://www.diversityinc.com/leadership/fortune-500-black-latino-asian-ceos/ - It took 15 years to go from 0/500 to 19/500. Capiche.
Theres one major flaw in this statement. Its not over-performing Minorities that have a problem getting into management...its EVERYONE with a High IQ. No need to single out minorities. Its the B-C student that usually becomes the boss (with the exception of the startup tech and software companies...but even those are eventually taken over by someone who did not graduate with a high GPA) Usually, High IQ's don't translate into leadership roles because they lack the proper social skills and graces needed. also...please stop with the racial slurs..."Chinaman"?? really?? What decade is this again? I'm amazed at the amount of racial baiting you do - it really makes me think you are an alternate-account for another poster purposely trying to stir things up to make your other account seem not-so-bad.
I actually agree with a lot of what you've said in this post. I appreciate you not going into full "Cartoon Character" mode for once. Our country is rife with oversensitivity, but that's not to say that biases don't exist that need to be called out. Innovation. Laughter. Managing others. Sex appeal. Education. These are all things that race has no real impact on. Skin color is to be left for individual preference, not any sort public policy or qualification process. I was one of those overprivilaged white kids. I got into Baylor over people I guarantee were more qualified, because of family ties. I shouldn't have been able to. I should have had to move along to Tech or UH. Not the overachievers who didn't have a "sponsor" like I did. Those biases weaken any social structure they are applied to. Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the prefer nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
Its all about cash, network, and looks. (I can agree with Ronny on SOME of that. Things can be inherently just, darned superficial. Though no need to go to great lengths to make it like its the universe's schematic "design", to validate that notion) Though the thing is the ultra rich, beautiful and blessed are NOT the majority. You still have to do something with the other 95% of "regs" in the world. They need a system where they can get ahead past some limitations. And it'll always involve some sort of "bribery" and enticements. Its NOT fair. But its so prevelant that its hard to call it "corrupt" anymore
There is some small truth in your post, but a lot of that have to do with background and upbringing of Asians in America. Because guess who gets to stay with H1B sponsorship and work in the U.S.? Usually people with a heavy Quant slant that can do jobs an average American can't. Basically Engineers, Statisticians, Doctors and etc. If you actually visit China, especially with the explosion of the capitalism, you see a lot more of the "natural born leaders" thriving in China's business environments. That said, the point of this thread to me is about affirmative action and fairness in the U.S.. I support affirmative action because I think our society is inherently unfair, and that AA helps balance the scales. This article reinforces the unfairness.
