Jews & Asians

I got scooped by Kevin on this interesting article comparing American Jews to Asian-Americans. We both had shared a laugh about it reading the same article, and how we both got to it by reading the same article about "Summer Lovin': A teenager's guide to the steamiest—and easiest—summer jobs." When you get down to the bottom of that article, there's an offhand comment about the article author's "yellow fever"; A link I couldn't resist clicking, because i've always wondered about that phenomenon. I didn't known it even extended to the Jewish guys, but I guess this is one phenomenon has no bounds. :)

So what do I think about the article Jews/Asian article? I think that the following is the most important sentence from that article: "A sentiment that emerges consistently is that meritocracy ends on graduation day, and that afterward, Asians start to fall behind because they don't have quite the right cultural style for getting ahead: too passive, not hail-fellow-well-met enough." I think the big difference between the two cultures, is the professions that are sought after. A simple fact is that lot's of asians go into engineering,math,sciences, which all share the same quality of having absolutely NO POWER & NO MONEY. What I wonder is what would happen when that competitive edge is taken away and we abandon our "maniacal studying ways" You can see it happening right now in my department with the influx of middle easterners saturating our Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. My friend Mike Diu wonders what are we going to be left with? His conclusion is that the way it's looking, the result of all this will be nothing....just a middle class, inconsequential, surburban existance.

hmm....Am i being too pessimistic? Do I care too much? Am I leading the wrong life?

A quote springs to mind: "One must be the change one wishes to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi