I was always trumpeting the merits of equality in my younger days for the following reason:
Psychologists and political pundits never made any distinctions between the different groups of non-whites races. Always, always, always, all minorities were lumped together in the same one big collective mass. Public talking heads talked about minorities having more high school dropout rates, lower student performance all around. more babies born out of wedlock, lower literacy rates, more violence, more crime, more gangs, more sexual promiscuity. This was the pervasive current events trend back when I was in high school.
I witnessed with my own eyes that this was simply not true for *particular* minority groups. Many of the minorities that my family and I personally knew (and still know) are nothing like that. The south Asian Indian-Bengali subcontinent is where my famly is from, as are the large group of families that we are friends with in North Caorlina and here in South Carolina.
All of them, and I do mean one hundred percent of them, are composed of husband-and-wife couples that have been married since at least nine months before their first kid was born. All of them have at least Bachelor's degrees. Many of them have Master's degrees in their chosen fields. This is roughly equal between women and men. Many of them have degrees in some sort of critical science field. Again, this includes the women as well as the men. All of them either work in industry or are college professors. There are a handful of medical___
Psychologists and political pundits never made any distinctions between the different groups of non-whites races. Always, always, always, all minorities were lumped together in the same one big collective mass. Public talking heads talked about minorities having more high school dropout rates, lower student performance all around. more babies born out of wedlock, lower literacy rates, more violence, more crime, more gangs, more sexual promiscuity. This was the pervasive current events trend back when I was in high school.
I witnessed with my own eyes that this was simply not true for *particular* minority groups. Many of the minorities that my family and I personally knew (and still know) are nothing like that. The south Asian Indian-Bengali subcontinent is where my famly is from, as are the large group of families that we are friends with in North Caorlina and here in South Carolina.
All of them, and I do mean one hundred percent of them, are composed of husband-and-wife couples that have been married since at least nine months before their first kid was born. All of them have at least Bachelor's degrees. Many of them have Master's degrees in their chosen fields. This is roughly equal between women and men. Many of them have degrees in some sort of critical science field. Again, this includes the women as well as the men. All of them either work in industry or are college professors. There are a handful of medical___
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