An Asian American’s View On Why Asians Save And Earn So Much

[GandD 5,966]

bringing up the unpaid work of slaves is not dismissive of other people's work. and i think you're forgetting how much agriculture meant to our beginnings as a country.

She said they built most of America. Not true.

[decocker 7,198]

She said they built most of America. Not true.

i don't think it's untrue that the unpaid work of slaves helped build america.. i don't think janelle is saying that slaves alone built america. if she is, then that is overlooking the contributions/sacrifices of many people.

[Teddy B 17,252]

You mean born with the ability raise each eyebrow independently and be able to casually remove Raybans while looking constipated?

With head tilted on a 45 degree angle? Yep, that's it.

His character, Horatio Cane, should be listed in the dictionary under the meaning of the word cheesy.

[Teddy B 17,252]

And a ##### policeman in First Blood Part 1.

Do you remember when he played the part of Tommy Mann, the leader of the Shamrock gang in Hill Street Blues?

[rlogan 2,036]

lol. Asian Privilege.

Misandry and anti-white bigotry is so thoroughly pervasive in our PC culture that posting an OP like this about Caucasians would be heresy. Thank God we are allowed to homeschool. We have half-breed children (Asian/American).

The older boy is four years old and just tested at 4th grade reading level, but is off the charts in science. He's past covalent bonding in chemistry now, and racing through the Periodic Table of Elements. He will not be eligible for kindergarten until next year because he is too young. By then, who knows where he will be. We have homeschool almost every day of the week, in terms of formal lessons, but it is all day in terms of learning. Both mom and dad read every daily science and reading lesson so either one can augment lessons in our daily lives. Plus we get to integrate all of their current events into school, which makes it fun and relevant. We just had an earthquake, so he can explain how plate tectonics causes earthquakes. He was doing plate tectonics anyway and by George, we happened to have a 5.9 temblor.

We are just dedicated parents that have been at it since they were in the womb - singing the ABC song to them through mommy's tummy every day - and what we get from a lot of Americans who do not know us personally is denigration. Lots of bad things to say, like posters here have done on other threads. Ruining their childhood. Pushing them too hard. All the idiotic canards about homeschool like the socialization myth - that you need to attend a public school with gangstas graduating sans ability to read but keen on selling cocaine and shooting each other on the streets. Yeah - socialization. Woo hoo.

We empathize with other Asian families, because the last laugh is ours. You go ahead and talk down to us for making educating our children the highest priority in our lives. Say all the nasty things you want. We'll just keep our heads down and shoulder to the wheel, every day. One year from now we are going to test the boy that is finally eligible for kindergarten. If he is already doing high school chemistry then I see no reason he can't be testing high school in general reading by then. It isn't magic, and he isn't a genius. This is just work. OK, so I sacrifice some international playboy time making up lessons, sure. And the Asian kids give up hangin' in the hood dealin drugs or catching that touchdown pass in their junior football league scrimmage to study. They have a bookworm stereotype because like this article says - the parents know education is what will kill every disadvantage they may have, like being a midget and a chink. (Referring to our kids. We're both short, wife under five feet lol).

See you at the SAT.

Edited September 4, 2014 by rlogan

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Do you remember when he played the part of Tommy Mann, the leader of the Shamrock gang in Hill Street Blues?

Looks like a friggin leprechaun.

With head tilted on a 45 degree angle? Yep, that's it.

His character, Horatio Cane, should be listed in the dictionary under the meaning of the word cheesy.

His parents should be flogged for giving him a name like that.

Might as well have called him Napoleon.

[GandD 5,966]

i don't think it's untrue that the unpaid work of slaves helped build america.. i don't think janelle is saying that slaves alone built america. if she is, then that is overlooking the contributions/sacrifices of many people.

They def helped. But she said they built "most" of America. I call bs on that. I'm not suggesting they didn't contribute. Of course they did.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Looks like a friggin leprechaun.

His parents should be flogged for giving him a name like that.

Might as well have called him Napoleon.

Horatio Caine is his role in CSI Miami. His real name is David Caruso, but it should be Hump Caruso.

[rlogan 2,036]

Free labor can give a lot of people a leg up.

which part did not help build the future wealth of America; free agriculture labor, building labor, child rearing, railroads, etc

Just asking.

just asking? heh. A rhetorical question, i.e. - making a statement, not asking a question.

Nobody in the USA I am aware of isn't informed on slavery. But not some gross misrepresentation of it as you are doing. The people who fought on the North were fighting to preserve the Union, which was breaking apart over just that issue: slavery.

People fought and died, sacrificed property, loved ones, casualties, etc. Millions of them. I have the family Bible passed down from a Civil War Colonel, on the side of the North. What has your family done to eliminate slavery? Mine led men into battle, suffered and died to end slavery. There was no slavery in their own state. They marched on foot hundreds of miles into gunfire to end it in other states.

So who are you to lecture me?

Edited September 4, 2014 by rlogan

[Teddy B 17,252]

just asking? heh. A rhetorical question, i.e. - making a statement, not asking a question.

Nobody in the USA I am aware of isn't informed on slavery. But not some gross misrepresentation of it as you are doing. The people who fought on the North were fighting to preserve the Union, which was breaking apart over just that issue: slavery.

People fought and died, sacrificed property, loved ones, casualties, etc. Millions of them. I have the family Bible passed down from a Civil War Colonel, on the side of the North. What has your family done to eliminate slavery? Mine led men into battle, suffered and died to end slavery. There was no slavery in their own state. They marched on foot hundreds of miles into gunfire to end it in other states.

So who are you to lecture me?

This just jumped way up my list of the most ridiculous things I've read here on VJ. You do realize the woman you directed this question to is black?

Edited September 4, 2014 by Teddy B

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

This just jumped way up my list of the most ridiculous things I've read here on VJ.

Yeah i thought that too. Who takes credit for the actions of their ancestors?

[Teddy B 17,252]

Yeah i thought that too. Who takes credit for the actions of their ancestors?

It was a double edged sword. First he takes credit for something someone in his blood line did 150 years ago, then he proceeds to ask a black woman what her family has done to end slavery. Complete foolishness.

Edited September 4, 2014 by Teddy B

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It was a double edged sword. First he takes credit for something someone in his blood line did 150 years ago, then he proceeds to ask a black woman what her family has done to end slavery. Complete foolishness.

It certainly wasn't classy.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

It was a double edged sword. First he takes credit for something someone in his blood line did 150 years ago, then he proceeds to ask a black woman what her family has done to end slavery. Complete foolishness.

You beat me to it.

[rlogan 2,036]

This just jumped way up my list of the most ridiculous things I've read here on VJ. You do realize the woman you directed this question to is black?

What relevance is that?

This is a perfect example of playing the race card dishonestly. Does the fact she is black make her ignorance of slavery in the USA excusable? My brother is black. Adopted. From Swaziland originally. We played soccer together in junior high, spied on our sisters slumber parties together, one grade apart in school, but everyone knew we were brothers. His middle name is pronounced "mfanangapala" which means "it's finally a boy" because it was eight girls followed finally by a boy.

How is that relevant either? Not at all, except the irony of you playing the race card against me. lol.

edit - oh yes perfect too: pretending all black people get automatic credit for ending slavery? Trivially wrong. And that no white people can be given credit for ending slavery?

Preposterous.

Edited September 4, 2014 by rlogan