<p>Hard work. No doubt about it. No one can dispute that. Very honorable. But everyone works hard. Only 24 hours in the day. There’s always someone out there working harder than you. </p>
<p>I’m not even sure what “smarter” even means anymore. As far as priorities go, most teenagers aren’t forcing themselves to study 12 hours a day. It’s usually parents. So that would be the parent’s priorities, not the students, which ultimately carries on once you are in college since that’s all you know by then. Which I can relate to. </p>
<p>My comment about parents was poking fun at this, and the influence parents have on kids majors, of all ethnic backgrounds. My grandma is from China and so I had a dose on one side of my family of the immigrant “mentality” (as dina4119 put it), and STEM majors were definitely pushed over non-STEM. Others just didn’t “pay off”. </p>
<p>Isurus-[…Minorities are still underrepresented, and asians do form the majority, but Caucasians do form a sizable portion of the class.]</p>
<p>This was just a simple observation in a couple classes. Not exaggerated by any means. Try it in your next large lecture. I’ll bet its well above 50-60%. 80% would be safe guesstimate. Just numbers, that’s all. About the minorities phrase, what about 50-60% of MCB (as dina4119 noted) screams underrepresented, when Asian’s are 15% of the state population. That’s nonsense. Caucasians would have a better argument saying they are underrepresented given that logic. Caucasians are less my concern than Hispanics and Africans Americans taking up only a few seats in the lectures I’ve been in. Literally a few seats: 1,2,3. </p>
<p>dina4119-[…I’m an MCB major and it is not 80-90% Asian, more around 50-60%. And even if it was, who cares?] </p>
<p>How about if they fill MCB with 80-90% Inuits from Alaska, or make it 80-90% Hispanic. Or how about specifically 80-90% Japanese. See what I’m saying. </p>
<p>Do you think it is okay if 80-90% of the school system is one ethnicity? Isn’t that how it was in like the 1930’s?</p>
<p>And please don’t say “'we are not supposed to see race”, because Asian cultures are notoriously race conscious (I’ll be careful with my language here). When I hear things like that I shake my head.</p>