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Old 01-27-2008, 02:26 PM  
Drake
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Originally Posted by baddog View Post
Why not?
Many reasons, just a few:

-Hispanic isn't a race; nor is there parity between Hispanics and Asians in terms of "success"
-Asian Americans aren't a representative sample (the best brightest with money emigrate to the US). One can compare Black African immigrants with Asian Americans for a more valid comparison.
-racial divisiveness has been greatest among American blacks and whites, (think Jim Crow, slavery, etc), and Native Americans.

This isn't to say that there aren't cultural issues unique to Black Americans that could be done away with for their betterment. It's just to say that when making raw comparisons of the kind made by GatorB, a lot of confounding variables are introduced.

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