Writings on the wall, your children will likely face educational and professional discrimination if you raise them in the US. Luckily I'm Korean-American will try to land a TT position in Korea and emigrate from the US.
Lost all motivation as an Asian American male
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To provide further insight, America reminds me a lot of some countries in Africa where multiple tribes exist. Basically governmental and societal rents are siphoned off to your tribe. I expect corruption and systemic discrimination to get a lot worse over the next couple decades. If you're talented, there's a first mover advantage at play.
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Writings on the wall, your children will likely face educational and professional discrimination if you raise them in the US. Luckily I'm Korean-American will try to land a TT position in Korea and emigrate from the US.
You'll face your own discrimination in Korea as an outsider. Korean-Americans don't fit in their world really. You'll be treated as an expat/visitor/tourist. Polite but with distance.
Raising your children there with the study pressure and military service hazing is also brutal.
On the plus side, Korea is safe, clean, modern, with a higher quality of life than anywhere I have seen in the U.S. Incredible retail, coffee shops, transportation infrastructure. Beautiful women everywhere and handsome guys.
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Writings on the wall, your children will likely face educational and professional discrimination if you raise them in the US. Luckily I'm Korean-American will try to land a TT position in Korea and emigrate from the US.
You'll face your own discrimination in Korea as an outsider. Korean-Americans don't fit in their world really. You'll be treated as an expat/visitor/tourist. Polite but with distance.
Raising your children there with the study pressure and military service hazing is also brutal.
On the plus side, Korea is safe, clean, modern, with a higher quality of life than anywhere I have seen in the U.S. Incredible retail, coffee shops, transportation infrastructure. Beautiful women everywhere and handsome guys.
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Writings on the wall, your children will likely face educational and professional discrimination if you raise them in the US. Luckily I'm Korean-American will try to land a TT position in Korea and emigrate from the US.
You'll face your own discrimination in Korea as an outsider. Korean-Americans don't fit in their world really. You'll be treated as an expat/visitor/tourist. Polite but with distance.
Raising your children there with the study pressure and military service hazing is also brutal.
On the plus side, Korea is safe, clean, modern, with a higher quality of life than anywhere I have seen in the U.S. Incredible retail, coffee shops, transportation infrastructure. Beautiful women everywhere and handsome guys.
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Everything is relative, South Korea is not a utopia.Fair enough
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I didn't qualify for diversity admissions, nor will I qualify for diversity hiring. I know I got underplaced in undergrad and PhD thanks to my skin color. People view my hard work as mechanical. Women think I'm awkward. Media doesn't give two iotas about me; see NYT article on how "Asians aren't discriminated." Idiots think I'm some ccp spy when I'm not even international, let alone Chinese. The only thing I have is my own work ethic, which recently has evaporated because 1) dating apps aren't friendly to Asian men, 2) the party that supports affirmative discrimination, liberals, are all over media spouting their nonsense. Are there no perks to being an Asian in America?
The perks of being an Asian in America is that you have the option to go to Asia, where the future is, before Uncle Sam goes to toilet.
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It does seem like Asia is the future.
America's handling of Covid was amazingly bad and provides a glimpse for the long term path this country could be heading down. It acted as a set piece for so much political fighting and bureaucratic incompetence and finger pointing. Also all the talk about diversity and inequality just fractures the country and isn't going to drive innovation.
Somewhat ironic that Asians who came to America will end up at the place that'll be worse off.The perks of being an Asian in America is that you have the option to go to Asia, where the future is, before Uncle Sam goes to toilet.
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I didn't qualify for diversity admissions, nor will I qualify for diversity hiring. I know I got underplaced in undergrad and PhD thanks to my skin color. People view my hard work as mechanical. Women think I'm awkward. Media doesn't give two iotas about me; see NYT article on how "Asians aren't discriminated." Idiots think I'm some ccp spy when I'm not even international, let alone Chinese. The only thing I have is my own work ethic, which recently has evaporated because 1) dating apps aren't friendly to Asian men, 2) the party that supports affirmative discrimination, liberals, are all over media spouting their nonsense. Are there no perks to being an Asian in America?
Bro in the end you only have your brain and your heart.
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Your parents made a bad investment by moving to the U.S. and being ignorant of its trend towards race-based politics since the 1980s. You are the cr@ppy asset resulting from their bad investment.
The funnier part? There are people even dumber than your parents, like the Chinese that are still trying to immigrate to the U.S. right now, completely ignorant of the fact that their children will be second-class citizens forever.
Maybe you will be smarter than these m0r0ns, find a good East Asian wife, and move to East Asia for a consulting/finance job.
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Writings on the wall, your children will likely face educational and professional discrimination if you raise them in the US. Luckily I'm Korean-American will try to land a TT position in Korea and emigrate from the US.
You'll face your own discrimination in Korea as an outsider. Korean-Americans don't fit in their world really. You'll be treated as an expat/visitor/tourist. Polite but with distance.
Raising your children there with the study pressure and military service hazing is also brutal.My best buddy in college is Korean-American and moved back to Korea. Of the "discrimination" he experienced as Korean-American, he says 80% is positive and 20% is negative. His bilingualism by itself is a positive asset in almost every career/social situation.
Study pressure and military service for children can have upsides and downsides, but in any case it's better than raising children in the U.S. where they'll almost certainly be bullied *and* have odds stacked against them in every stage of their life.
Military service also has its proponents and opponents. Vast majority of men find it a positive experience overall. As academics, it would be an inconvenient delay to an academic career. But in any case, knowing what we know, we shouldn't expect our children to be academics like us. -
To provide further insight, America reminds me a lot of some countries in Africa where multiple tribes exist. Basically governmental and societal rents are siphoned off to your tribe. I expect corruption and systemic discrimination to get a lot worse over the next couple decades. If you're talented, there's a first mover advantage at play.
Agreed completely. In every econ related career, such as academia, litigation consulting, hedge funds - there's a large premium towards being "first movers" in a new market. American-born Asians who have their eyes open can benefit significantly from moving back to East Asia a few years before other Asian-Americans realize where the future lies.
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Just to make this clear for the people who don't get that this is some sort of de ran GED troll.
Asian Americans are the highest achieving ethnic group in the US with the greatest upward mobilitySimilar facts: Jewish Germans were the highest achieving ethnic group in 1920s Germany by far. Jewish Russians were the highest achieving group in 1950s Russia by far.