Photo from the Washington Post article:
The White House releases a photo of its interns,
and the Internet asks: Why so few people of color?
(See larger photo here)
The Vdare blog has this fascinating post up: Meritocracy And Diversitocracy Incompatible.
Derbyshire, the author of the article via his radio show, expands on an article: Analysis: The White House releases a photo of its interns, and the Internet asks: Why so few people of color? by Eugene Scott, published on the Washington Post on March 31, 2018.
Besides the usual "blacks are less intelligent than whites" meme that Vdare endlessly announces, what I found so very interesting was that Derbyshire, who is married to an Asian woman and with two Happa children, should have missed this one: The statistically insignificant presence of Asians in the photo of the White House interns on the Whashington Post article. That is, statistically, zero. In actuality, I counted:
- One South Asian woman (no men)
- Two East Asian men (no women)
Asians have continuously been touted as smarter than whites (they get the highest scores in various standardized tests) the most diligent, and the most successful academically. But something strange happens when they hit the "real world."
I've written about it here regarding music and general academics, and here on the (in)famous "Tiger Mom" who was a subject of my two or three posts, and who has a new book out championing "tribal" connections - in America no less!
Amy Chua's (the Tiger Mom's) two daughters show similar traits. Despite a rigorous childhood of homework and volin practice neither has turned out to be the genius she (we) expected.
Well Chua's latest book is a little more complicated than that, but no less self-serving than her memoir and her American life. But more on that later.