I didn't say Asians were inferior. I said, "Isn't it possible that they might have cultural qualities that would generally make them less suite to leadership in U.S. companies?"
As far as Asian culture being very similar to white culture (or to be more accurate, U.S. culture, I can't believe anybody who knows anything about the culture of Asian societies would actually bring up that point. Suffice to say, yes, there are cultural differences between cultures, and I'm sure you can find plenty of evidence of that on your own.
Pearl Harbor murdered whites, destroyed very expensive things paid for almost entirely by whites and sent us into an incredibly expensive war where mostly white soldiers died and tons of money was wasted in the war effort. Those costs of injustice far outweigh whatever paltry economic loss was sustained by the relatively few Japanese prisoners, so yes, let's take money from the Asians. Or alternatively, let's take money from American citizens of Japanese descent who came to the U.S. after WWII and give it to Asians who came before WWII. Same things with blacks. Black people who descended primarily from slaves have to get compensated for slavery, but those who came to the U.S. in the post slavery age have to pay in since they were probably descended from people who sold the Africans into slavery in the first place, and since guilty comes from blood, all the white blood in black Americans must also be punished since the white blood was from slave owners, so the darker you are, the more money you get. Also, women were deprived rights much longer than blacks, so all men must pay women compensation for the last five thousand years or so. It's going to take awhile for us to pay that one back. Then, let's not forget the Native Americans. Some tribes started violence against us. We started some violence against some tribes. We'll have to look at who did what. Some Native Americans will get badly boned and some will make out like bandits, and of course people of Hispanic descent will have to pay a lot into the system because the Spanish really did a number on the locals much worse than the British colonists, and then even the Africans who came here as slaves probably came from tribes that enslaved other Africans, so maybe they should all have to send money to Africa, and on and on and on this insane game goes.
To put it simply, this is bullshit. We can never make up for past wrongs by trying to balance the scales for every past wrong.
People should be treated equally under the law and should be free to succeed as much as possible.
In term of performance, Asian culture is mostly applied to Asians who came from oversea. Study shows that there is no significant in performance between Asian Americans and White Americans, even if Asian Americans score slightly higher.
I don't see how those injustice has anything to do with Japanese Americans. It's the Japanese who did it, but America was treating their own citizens as foreigners like they have a hive mind or something. Native Americans thought they share the lands, we push them out of the land, remember the Trail of Tears? We appropriate them to bad areas constantly. The reservations are mostly poor, there are a lot of crimes and not a lot of job prospect. Hispanic and Spanish are different groups of people with different cultures, I'm not sure what one has to do with the others. We're talking about the mistreatment that created the inequality, not holding anyone responsible. We're just creating an equal playing field here. All of your examples don't make any sense, so your point is not being strengthen at all.
Okay, I'll make the point more simply. It's insane to try to balance out the scales of past injustices. If you want to try to make up for the past wrongs, you end up doing the kind of nonsense I mentioned in my previous post. We can all find ways we are wronged by other groups and demand compensation, but it lead to insanity. We must judge every one as individuals and hold them to account for their own personal actions.
You say that you aren't trying to hold anybody responsible, yet earlier, you said, "Justice is more about making up for past mistakes." Don't mistakes necessitate a mistake maker? Isn't the mistake maker generally the one held responsible for making up for mistakes? It seems to me that saying you want the U.S. to make up for past mistakes means you must want to hold someone accountable, but assuming you truly have no interest in holding someone responsible then stop talking about the previous wrongs as if they are somehow relevant to the conversation. I will if you will.
Leaving apart any type of responsibility for past wrongs, then what you are advocating is just regular old socialism. It doesn't matter if someone is a poor black or a poor white, you just think the economic scales must be balanced. That's a bit off topic from where we started, but to make my case quickly, socialism is bad because it limits people's freedom, it fails to create wealth and it gives the government tons of power which they inevitably abuse. That why I prefer capitalism which is nothing more than economic freedom.
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