Stereotypes Are Built On Truth

[PoliticalChic]

....then the subject can decide whether to be offended.....or laugh.

 

[bluzman61]

....then the subject can decide whether to be offended.....or laugh.

So VERY, VERY true. They DO exist because in many cases, people DO fit the stereotype perfectly. And if it weren't for this, stereotypes would NOT exist. Thank you.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

*****CHUCKLE*****

 

[PoliticalChic]

....then the subject can decide whether to be offended.....or laugh.

So VERY, VERY true. They DO exist because in many cases, people DO fit the stereotype perfectly. And if it weren't for this, stereotypes would NOT exist. Thank you.

Soooo.....you know my parents, huh?

 

[fncceo]

Ridiculous ... I never poisoned a well in my life.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Ridiculous ... I never poisoned a well in my life.

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Fingerprints don't lie!!

 

[yidnar]

if thats what Asian dads are really like they are the best dads to have !

 

[PoliticalChic]

if thats what Asian dads are really like they are the best dads to have !

Talk about stereotypes, and it's education in Asian families.

"So what accounts for the poverty-defying trajectory of the Fujianese kids?
The answer is fourfold.

First is a cultural trait that has become a cliché in the model-minority discussion: a zealous focus on education. .... education for the next generation is close to a religion..... One recent college graduate, now a public school math teacher, told me that his mother would wake him at 5 AM to go over math problems—when he was in the first and second grade. ..
.... one kindergartner’s mother said, in faltering English: “My son must go Harvard.”


a. No matter how poor they are, parents find a way to get their fourth- or fifth-graders into test-prep classes. WNYC found one Sunset Park family who put aside $5,000 for classes for their three sons out of a yearly household income of just $26,000.


b. ....Chinese kids had the longest commutes to high school. Most parents would be uneasy about an hour-and-a-half trip every day from the middle of Brooklyn, say, to Bronx Science. Kasinitz found that Latino parents, in particular, like to keep their high schoolers close to home.
Chinese parents weren’t deterred by distance—or by much else."
Brooklyn's Chinese Pioneers by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Spring 2014