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by btoptical
4435 days ago
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When I was a physics undergrad all 12 physics majors in my graduating class were given a "talk" by a senior white faculty member about the "realities" of the physics pyramid. Basically we were told that our Chinese competitors made much better grad students and we should basically not bother applying to grad school because we couldn't compete against the "better" Chinese. |
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Shoot I'll go one further. When I was in 5th grade I offered to help get their huge donation of 486s ready for use (installing windows on them and the like). Most of the teachers didn't know how to use computers at the time, and they were happy with my work so they tasked me to fix/maintain all of them after class. That was pretty cool! I picked a filipino classmate to help out, and one day at honor roll ceremony the principal accidentally introduced him as the computer guy and me as the assistant -_-.
A physics teacher pulled that stunt once too at my community college. He told us the only people that would get As in his class were "real Asians. Not white guys that think they're Asian." He regularly made borderline racist and sexist comments though.
The reality is (at least in my experience) that no one race or gender is better at science subjects, engineering, or math. Most people in those subjects work their butts off to get where they are. The part I dislike is when someone stumbles, there's a lot of pressure on them to quit when there should be encouragement to try again. Sometimes things can be like pounding out a sword on an anvil, it doesn't happen instantly.
Instead it looks like there's always encouragement to kick people out and discourage people from studying a subject.