Why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States - "Whereas extensive research has examined the “glass ceiling” faced by women, little research has examined the “bamboo ceiling,” whereby Asians appear disproportionately underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States. To investigate the mechanisms and scope of this problem, we compared the two largest Asian subgroups: East Asians and South Asians. Across nine studies (n = 11,030), East Asians were less likely than South Asians and whites to attain leadership positions, whereas South Asians outperformed whites. The leadership attainment gap between East Asians and South Asians was consistently explained by cultural differences in assertiveness, but not by prejudice or motivation. To leverage diverse leadership talent, organizations should understand the differences among different cultural groups and diversify the prototype of leadership."
Damn "white supremacy", holding back East Asians but making South Asians even more successful than whites! This must be a ploy by "white supremacy" to pit minorities against each other! posted an article (from New York Magazine, no less) about the low overlap between the traits needed to be a good Asian and a good leader in the US, and this liberal accused me of claiming Asian Americans were incapable of integrating and that the number of companies in Asia with Asian leaders disproved the point (presumably it is politically palatable for Asian companies in Asia to be led by white people)
A cultural clue to why East Asians are kept from US C-suites - "East Asian cultures emphasize humility and conformity over assertiveness. Whereas non-assertiveness can be seen as steadiness in East Asian cultures, that could be interpreted in American leadership culture as lacking confidence and motivation. In contrast, South Asian cultures often encourage assertiveness and debate in interpersonal communication... The leadership success of South Asians in America is made more significant by the fact that since 9/11 some have experienced increased prejudice due to Islamophobia... “[The studies] found that non-Asian Americans exhibited greater prejudice toward South Asians than East Asians,” the researchers write. “These results suggest that prejudice is unlikely to be the main reason for the observed leadership attainment gap between East Asians and South Asians, as South Asians were better able to attain leadership despite facing more prejudice than East Asians.”"
Given that discrimination is the Unified Field Theory of Liberal thought, it's odd that South Asians have better outcomes despite facing more prejudice
So is Lee Kuan Yew still a racist for saying the same thing as Amartya Sen?
Big Answers, LLC - Posts - "readers were critical that The Hollywood Reporter used the term “bamboo ceiling” in an article to describe the significance of Asian actors, producers and directors that received Oscar nominations this year.But this term has been used within the AAPI community to discuss the “individual, cultural and organizational factors that impede Asian Americans’ career progress inside organizations”. The term was coined in 2005 by Jane Hyun in her book Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians.The controversy indicates our growing sensitivity to harmful stereotypes – particularly those perpetuated by the media. It also indicates that if the term might be new for many, so is the conversation. We need to spend more time understanding the barriers that the AAPI community faces.We've included the definition below and some screenshots for context."
Ignorance doesn't stop grievance mongering. Indeed, it drives it even further
The myth of the “model minority myth” probably tells us about the pervasiveness of lying - "The idea is that while the public believes that Asian Americans are successful, often well-off, and disproportionately professionals, this is actually misleading and perpetuates the myth that they are a model minority.The problem is that it is not a myth. The public’s eyes are not lying. The term “model minority” is loaded, and comes out of a specific time, the 1960s, and was used in contrast with black Americans. But, descriptively it points to the fact that Asian Americans on average are more educated, more well-off, and live longer, than the average American, including the average white American.I’ve heard the well-actually-the-model-minority-is-a-myth responses in various forms since the 1990s. It has been perfected by Asian American activists, who use as a template the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and so must flatten and negate the unique characteristics of Asian Americans which make the template ill-fitting for their purposes.First, “remember the Hmong. Not all Asian Americans are Indian, Chinese, or Japanese….” Aside from the fact that the Hmong have made massive strides in the last 30 years, the reality is that the overwhelming majority of Asian Americans are Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean. The “traditional” Asian American groups. This is not to negate Bhutanese refugees, but they are a very small community, and their experience is not typical. Sometimes the average does tell you a lot. Second, there is the idea that Asian American success is predicated on selective migration. Yes, but so what? That doesn’t negate the descriptive reality that Indian American doctors are quite well-off, and their children do quite well. And importantly, the idea of Asian Americans as a “model minority” came to the fore in the 1960s, when most Asian Americans were native-born Chinese and Japanese. And, these groups were not selected for professionals and those with social and financial capital. The Japanese who arrived tended to be the poorer families from the southern part of Japan, often the landless, while the Chinese were Taishenese and Cantonese laborers.The ultimate aim is to emphasize the determinative impact of white racism and supremacy in American life. The existence of Asian American success, including dark-skinned South Indian doctors who did not arrive in the United States until they were 30, is threatening to that model. A few minutes of Google and surveying public data could illustrate the fact that the empirical examples refuting the myth are implausible. There are not many Hmong or Bangladeshis (poorer Asian communities). Those communities are actually advancing too. The model minority idea emerged at a time when very few Asian Americans were products of the post-1965 selective immigration system. The vast majority of Asian Americans are actually “successful” groups... Academics and “thought leaders” are lying to the public. Some of the academics and most of the “thought leaders” probably actually believe that the model minority is a myth because they can’t be bothered to take a few minutes and avail themselves of free Census data. But, many Asian American scholars surely understand that the myth is a lie they are promoting for ideological reasons on some level"
A "myth" is a fact that liberals don't like
Genetic predictors of educational attainment and intelligence test performance predict voter turnout - "Although the genetic influence on voter turnout is substantial (typically 40–50%), the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Across the social sciences, research suggests that ‘resources for politics’ (as indexed notably by educational attainment and intelligence test performance) constitute a central cluster of factors that predict electoral participation. Educational attainment and intelligence test performance are heritable. This suggests that the genotypes that enhance these phenotypes could positively predict turnout. To test this, we conduct a genome-wide complex trait analysis of individual-level turnout. We use two samples from the Danish iPSYCH case–cohort study, including a nationally representative sample as well as a sample of individuals who are particularly vulnerable to political alienation due to psychiatric conditions (n = 13,884 and n = 33,062, respectively). Using validated individual-level turnout data from the administrative records at the polling station, genetic correlations and Mendelian randomization, we show that there is a substantial genetic overlap between voter turnout and both educational attainment and intelligence test performance."
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Different Forms of Bullying Perpetration, Bullying Victimization, and Their Co-occurrence - "Bullying comes in different forms, yet most previous genetically-sensitive studies have not distinguished between them. Given the serious consequences and the high prevalence of bullying, it is remarkable that the aetiology of bullying and its different forms has been under-researched. We present the first study to investigate the genetic architecture of bullying perpetration, bullying victimization, and their co-occurrence for verbal, physical and relational bullying. Primary-school teachers rated 8215 twin children on bullying perpetration and bullying victimization. For each form of bullying, we investigated, through genetic structural equation modelling, the genetic and environmental influences on being a bully, a victim or both. 34% of the children were involved as bully, victim, or both. The correlation between being a bully and being a victim varied from 0.59 (relational) to 0.85 (physical). Heritability was ~ 70% for perpetration and ~ 65% for victimization, similar in girls and boys, yet both were somewhat lower for the relational form. Shared environmental influences were modest and more pronounced among girls. The correlation between being a bully and being a victim was explained mostly by genetic factors for verbal (~ 71%) and especially physical (~ 77%) and mostly by environmental factors for relational perpetration and victimization (~ 60%). Genes play a large role in explaining which children are at high risk of being a victim, bully, or both. For victimization this suggests an evocative gene-environment correlation: some children are at risk of being exposed to bullying, partly due to genetically influenced traits. So, genetic influences make some children more vulnerable to become a bully, victim or both."
Victim blaming!
Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics - "In the context of current concerns about replication in psychological science, we describe 10 findings from behavioral genetic research that have replicated robustly. These are “big” findings, both in terms of effect size and potential impact on psychological science, such as linearly increasing heritability of intelligence from infancy (20%) through adulthood (60%). Four of our top 10 findings involve the environment, discoveries that could have been found only with genetically sensitive research designs. We also consider reasons specific to behavioral genetics that might explain why these findings replicate...
Finding 1. All psychological traits show significant and substantial genetic influence
Finding 2. No traits are 100% heritable
Finding 3. Heritability is caused by many genes of small effect
Finding 4. Phenotypic correlations between psychological traits show significant and substantial genetic mediation
Finding 5. The heritability of intelligence increases throughout development
Finding 6. Age-to-age stability is mainly due to genetics
Finding 7. Most measures of the “environment” show significant genetic influence
Although
it might seem a peculiar thing to do, measures of the environment
widely used in psychological science—such as parenting, social
support, and life events—can be treated as dependent measures in genetic
analyses. If they are truly measures of the environment, they should
not show genetic influence. To the contrary, in 1991, Plomin
and Bergeman conducted a review of the first 18 studies in which
environmental measures were used as dependent measures in genetically
sensitive designs and found evidence for genetic influence for these
measures of the environment. Significant genetic influence was
found for objective measures such as videotaped obser-vations of
parenting as well as self-report measures of parenting, social
support, and life events.
Finding 8. Most associations between environmental measures and psychological traits are significantly mediated genetically
Finding 9. Most environmental effects are not shared by children growing up in the same family
For
instance, for antisocial behavior in adolescence, shared environment
accounts for about 15% of the total phenotypic variance; however, even
here nonshared environment accounts for more of the variance, about 40%
in meta-analyses, although this estimate includes variance due to error
of measurement (Rhee & Waldman, 2002). Academic achievement
consistently shows some shared environ-mental influence, presumably due
to the effect of schools, although the effect is surprisingly modest in
its magnitude (about 15% for English and 10% for mathematics) given
that this result is based on siblings growing up in the same family and
being taught in the same school (Kovas, Haworth, Dale, & Plomin,
2007). An interesting developmental exception is that shared
environmental influence is found for intelligence up until adolescence
and then diminishes as adolescents begin to make their own way in the
world, as shown in meta-analyses (Briley & Tucker-Drob, 2013;
Haworth et al., 2010).
Finding 10. Abnormal is normal"
So siblings are similar because of their genes, not their upbringing
What I'm thankful to know about genetics and history in 2020 - "Caste and jati are genetically real constructs and date to more than 1,000 years ago. Genetically, a Tamil Brahmin is more like a Brahmin from North India than they are their neighbors in Tamil Nadu... Overall, the mass migration of the Roman period didn’t have a long-term impact on Western Europe because of low fertility in cities, where the migrants were concentrated."
Do genetics control who our friends are? It seems so with mice
Scientists find genetic differences between northern Chinese, Koreans and Japanese | South China Morning Post - "Li and her team said their discovery suggested that northern Han Chinese, Japanese and Koreans likely had common ancestors but evolved independently in recent millennia."
