Peter says, I do not know who he is referring to:
“To nitpick: he’s totally wrong about whites being slightly lower than orientals in IQ on creativity. First, IQ tests don’t measure creativity. Second, on what they do measure that resemble creativity, orientals always place far lower than whites. Third, even the section of IQ tests that allege oriental slight superiority such as in rote intelligence used for math and science, the results are contradicted by other IQ tests, but these contradictory results are censored.”
“Actually, orientals I have known, in typical Asian modesty, are quick to say that whites are superior in all aspects of intelligence, but that orientals are better in rote **skills** only because they don’t mind sacrificing themselves to study 14 hours a day. I always said to them that they were just being modest, but they would look offended and insist they were being accurate. Often this was followed by them saying they always wished they were white, and please would I tell no one they said that. ”
Comment by Peter — 12/29/2005 @ 2:49
As I have pointed out a dozen times (literally) but don’t seem to be able to get across, inventions DIE in the Orient. When we get an invention we change the world with it. The Orient not only stagnates, it slides.
Without the West, China would slide back tino its rice paddies.
But they got the aquatic rice from India when it was white. Even accepted history admits that.
By the way, your “fourteen hours a day” is literal.
I was just reading an article about Korean men who send their wives and children to the United States so the children can be educated here. Unlike Westerners who circumcize, many Orientals do not like torturing their children. The school day in South Korea including homework is frourteen hours, the exact number you mentioned.
It is almost ALL rote memory. Can you imagine more torture for a child’s mind?
Can you imagine what’s left of a child’s mind after twelve years of that?
If you don’t do the fourteen, you can forget university and anything but a joanitorial job.
#1 by Mark on 12/30/2005 - 2:01 pm
Hey Bob, I wonder why the Jewish/PC bunch that is responsible for forcing black and brown miscenegation upon the white race doesn’t push oriental mixing with Whites as well? The resulting raceial mix would be a doggedly hard worker AND innovative. Guess that combination kinda scares that self rightous yet cowardly cabal.
#2 by CL on 12/30/2005 - 2:23 pm
This reminds me of a biography I read a few years ago, of Pete Harmon, the Mormon who was the first franchisee of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a major reason the business succeeded. (The Colonel was a master promoter but had little nuts and bolts business sense. For trivia buffs, the first Coca-Cola was bottled in Vicksburg, not Atlanta, and the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant appeared in Salt Lake City, not Kentucky.)
In the book (after the curious inclusion of an admission that Harmon set himself on fire to avoid being sent overseas in WWII–an “accident,” you know) there’s the story of opening the first KFC in China–a huge location in Tiananmen Square ). He was part of the start-up team for the restaurant, and while the opening of a KFC in the US is no big deal, it was a VERY big deal there and then.
The employees were, of course, Chinese, and they had a training period some days before the much anticipated opening to learn the employee manual. They were spectacular learners. There were huge line(s) out into the city to get into the restaurant. But a funny thing happened. The employee manual had said that, to paraphrase, “at such and such time, go clean the lobby. . .at such and such time, go clean the bathrooms, etc.” Well, there were ten thousand Chinese snaked around the alleys of Beijing waiting in line to get chicken, but what do you think happened when “such and such” time came? That’s right, they dropped everything to clean the commode. Harmon and the Americans couldn’t believe it. And the Chinese employees couldn’t grasp why they were being frantically urged to get back to their posts. And unless Harmon or the other Americans were there to stop them, they would repeat this process whenever “such and such” time came, according to the employee handbook.
I couldn’t help but think of the “Borg Collective” when reading this, and it certainly gels with my own experiences with Asians.
#3 by joe o on 12/31/2005 - 1:47 pm
The company that I work for sent many jobs overseas to Oriental nations. They are cheaper than US workers and are very hard working. However, we need to hire many more Orientals to do the same job because they need to work very hard to be ordinary. Our engineering / creative expertise comes from the US and Europe exclusively.