I'm tired of reading defeatist articles and pieces about how young people growing up today have the deck stacked against them and how upward mobility is a myth.
Think upward mobility and achievement is a myth? I have one word for you: Asians.
Yes, Asians. So often coming from nothing, from war-torn or famine-ravaged lands, lands of mass psychosis through cultural revolution and such poverty and repression it is beyond anything we could ever imagine in our worst nightmares. Separated families, war, poverty, starvation, brutal dictatorships, lack of true education and instead brainwashing propaganda. I know these people - Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian. I work with them, am close friends with them, and know their children, families (where there still are families - many have suffered holocausts to the Japanese in WWII), and households. I count so many such very close friends.
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