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by MulaiAzhagi Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:08 am
A couple of years ago, you praised the Tamil Brahmins for "rolling in with the punches". You mentioned this in the context of discrimination they face in educational opportunities such as engineering and medicine.
I remember you saying that they find other pathways to succeed by going into other fields like charted accounting, IT etc.
You were absloutely correct. I think people are better off moving on and exploiting whatever opportunities they get than whining about discrimination.
Recently, you were lamenting about the "reverse discrimination" the Indian kids face getting into ivy-league schools.
Don't you think the desi kids here should "roll in with the punches" and find other pathways to "succeed" in America?
In fact, denied admission to an ivy-league school is hardly an adversity.
The kids can always go to a less selective school, excel there and still succeed in their chosen fields.
I remember you saying that they find other pathways to succeed by going into other fields like charted accounting, IT etc.
You were absloutely correct. I think people are better off moving on and exploiting whatever opportunities they get than whining about discrimination.
Recently, you were lamenting about the "reverse discrimination" the Indian kids face getting into ivy-league schools.
Don't you think the desi kids here should "roll in with the punches" and find other pathways to "succeed" in America?
In fact, denied admission to an ivy-league school is hardly an adversity.
The kids can always go to a less selective school, excel there and still succeed in their chosen fields.
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Re: To Max
by MaxEntropy_Man Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:23 am
MulaiAzhagi wrote:A couple of years ago, you praised the Tamil Brahmins for "rolling in with the punches". You mentioned this in the context of discrimination they face in educational opportunities such as engineering and medicine.
I remember you saying that they find other pathways to succeed by going into other fields like charted accounting, IT etc.
You were absloutely correct. I think people are better off moving on and exploiting whatever opportunities they get than whining about discrimination.
Recently, you were lamenting about the "reverse discrimination" the Indian kids face getting into ivy-league schools.
Don't you think the desi kids here should "roll in with the punches" and find other pathways to "succeed" in America?
In fact, denied admission to an ivy-league school is hardly an adversity.
The kids can always go to a less selective school, excel there and still succeed in their chosen fields.
in general i agree agree with you (that it is better to get the most out of the system, roll with the punches and not whine), but in the US it is possible to fight the system and get things changed for the better. so it might be worthwhile spending the effort. with the entrenched corrupt political system in india, the requisite energy is beyond the abilities of most normal human beings. but yes, not making it into one of the ivies is definitely not the end of the world.
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