The Winning Team of the 2013 Math Olympiad from Philip Exeter Academy.
Should I be called racist for noticing the predominantly Asian faces in this group?
All generalizations are false including this one but -— certain races excel in certain endeavors - just the way it is.
“Should I be called racist for noticing the predominantly Asian faces in this group?”
It is not a fluke. Several years ago I had to attend a high school graduation.
The valedictorian was an Asian female.
The next 6 in order of grades were Asian females.
The next was Asian male.
The 9th was a caucasian female.
The 10th was black female.
You can tell the sixth guy from left to right plays serious Chess, too ...
In early June we attended an honors award for a fairly new middle school with an good reputation for good results. Many of the students have parents in scientific jobs from Livermore to universities and tech companies.
Our young relative is an Anglo white teenage gal with straight A's and zero absences in middle school. She was one of 20 something Math award members. There were 5 other girls. There were 2 other Anglo girls, a white Russian girl, who started school 3 years ago in America, and two Asian girls.
The boys getting awards with the exception of one Anglo were Asian and Indian, not Native American Indians.
The top two math students were the Russian Girl and an Asian boy.
There were zero Hipanics and Blacks getting a math award. A couple of each won an entertainment award, and they had a big fan club with the other winners.
Later I discussed the mixes with the girls Dad and Mother. Both of them were honor students across the board and excellent athletes.
They said most of the white kids, Hispanic kids and the black kids would be classified as wanna be Gang Bangers or worse. That was clearly confirmed at the graduation ceremony a few weeks later for all of the kids. Many of their parents looked and acted like over grown thugs with tats everywhere, baseball hats with flat brims on the sides of their heads and pants looking plumber's pants. Most of them where incapable of having a conversation with the old normal parents/relatives.
Hopefully, the math winners as noted by this thread and the ones I described, will become great Americans and help keep us afloat for their generations and ones to come.
Of course like most California mid and High Schools this school had no programs for those who would be good college students. As our male relative noted, a job in a fast food restaurant might be too much for most of the kids in what is considered one of California's better middle schools.
I noticed the same thing so guess that makes me racist too.