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The fact that they're a small pocket in a large country is precisely why it's impressive. You're just hard to impress. What would make it impressive to you?
As for CEOs and so on, I have no stats. It appears you don't either, so we don't have much to discuss about that for the moment.
Well I, for one, love the Asians.
But I learned before not to talk about race, religion or politics on here.
It sends people insane.
Now let's get back to pussy and sports...
In the TDSB, Asians make up 43% of the population. Whites make up 29% Seems of the top 8, white kids are batting well above the average.
Of course ethnic makeup isn't as huge a factor as the education of the parents, the family values, and finances.
This is from a 2011-12 survey, couldn't find anything more recent: http://www.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/research/docs/2011-12CensusFactSheet1-Demographics-17June2013.pdf
"The City of Toronto is among the most ethnically diverse cities world-wide. In the TDSB, the four largest self-identified racialized groups are White (29%), South Asian (24%), East Asian (15%), and Black (12%). The remaining population consists of other groups including “Mixed”, Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, Latin American, and Aboriginal."
https://thesocietypages.org/papers/new-ceos/
This is from the US but 20 Asian CEOs in the Fortune 500 (4%) and they make up 5.6% of the population.
I have nieces and nephews who are currently making their way through grade and high school and many, if not most of their South Asian and East Asian students are 1st or 2nd generation. In many cases their parents don't speak English or barely speak English yet they push their children to excel in school.
When I attended grade and high school a hundred years ago all or virtually all of my classmates had parents whose first language is English. Having parents who are fluent in English is a huge advantage for children attending school.
I don't think so.
Remember that old joke from Quebec?
What do you call someone who can speak three languages?
Tri-lingual.
What do you call someone who can speak two languages?
Bi-lingual.
What do you call someone who can only speak one language?
English speaking Canadian.
Ain't dat da true.
In the grand scheme of things - globally that is - Canada is increasingly immaterial. Some of the top companies in the world are being headed by Indians. Google. Microsoft. Pepsi. MasterCard. Adobe. Harmon. To name a few. Oh yeah...they needed to be twice as good as "white guy" to get there! you and i both know that.
It is always good to broaden one's horizon by being able to speak more than one language. When I lived in Montreal I was functionally bilingual (English and French). I have since lost much of my French. In the U.S. it is useful to learn Spanish.
I think many (most, all?) Chinese companies are headed by Chinese.
East Indians tend to have a language advantage because many of them speak English due to the decades of British rule. However, some of them speak with such a heavy accent that it is barely understandable.
The East Indians on Big Bang Theory speak English with a slight East Indian accent.
Big head versus little head. No reason why we can't give the big head some credit once in a while.
J
jazzbox
Probably a far higher co-relation between income and school performance than between school performance and daft categories like "ethnic Asian".... Of course, Toronto has seen an influx of wealthy Chinese and Hong Kong residents and they send their kids to good (often private but not always) schools and they go to U of T and do well. You take a bunch of wealthy white kids that go to St Andrews and and then Queens/Western/UofT and they tend to do really well too. Surprise.
Re SkyRiders Catholic school comments. Where I reside the Catholic schools do consistently worse on academic performance AND drugs and violence in the schools to the point that parents are now taking their kids out of Catholic schools and sending them to the public schools. Brand spanking new Catholic school in my neighbourhood and cops are there everyday. I chose not to send my kids there and glad I did. They are going to a diverse and excellent public school and their Catholic friends are following them there. One other thing that pisses me off to no end, historically, the Catholic schools in Ontario have been notorious for sending kids with behavioural and learning challenges to the public school system - like any good Christian would - and this, in the past, has skewed the public system downward in terms of academic achievement and imposed greater costs on the non-Catholic public schools. Catholic schools should be defunded.
Re SkyRiders Catholic school comments. Where I reside the Catholic schools do consistently worse on academic performance AND drugs and violence in the schools to the point that parents are now taking their kids out of Catholic schools and sending them to the public schools. Brand spanking new Catholic school in my neighbourhood and cops are there everyday. I chose not to send my kids there and glad I did. They are going to a diverse and excellent public school and their Catholic friends are following them there. One other thing that pisses me off to no end, historically, the Catholic schools in Ontario have been notorious for sending kids with behavioural and learning challenges to the public school system - like any good Christian would - and this, in the past, has skewed the public system downward in terms of academic achievement and imposed greater costs on the non-Catholic public schools. Catholic schools should be defunded.
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