see new posts the post in question. 102 million views. @vivekgramaswamy follow the reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over native americans isnt because of an innate american iq deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). a key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. tough questions demand tough answers & if were really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the truth: our american culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). that doesnt start in college, it starts young. a culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers. a culture that venerates cory from boy meets world, or zach & slater over screech in saved by the bell, or stefan over steve urkel in family matters, will not produce the best engineers. (fact: i know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those tv shows precisely because they promoted mediocrityand their kids went on to become wildly successful stem graduates). more movies like whiplash, fewer reruns of friends. more math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. more weekend science competitions, fewer saturday morning cartoons. more books, less tv. more creating, less chillin. more extracurriculars, less hanging out at the mall. most normal american parents look skeptically at those kinds of parents. more normal american kids view such those kinds of kids with scorn. if you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
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