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Entry: Responding to Justin Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/responding_to_justin#26589 Post contents: Jupiter and William of OC are right about East Asians. I have spent time in East Asia as both a student and a teacher. Asians are not interested in becoming Americans at all. They feel entitled to be Chinese, Korean, or whatever, wherever they are. They are nationalists and racialists. Second and third generation Asians in America still carry on the old conflicts between "imperialist Japs" and "dirty Chinese". Unlike well-adjusted, loyal Americans, They still talk about "Azn pride" and "Korean pride". What have they ever contributed to American cultural or intellectual life? Well, why should we expect them to contribute anything? In culture-starved Korea, there is no intellectual life. There is just aggrandizement of the Korean race. In Japan, things get done not by individuals but by a group. The Chinese are equally collectivist and racially conscious. I hear it every day. East Asian observers of the American presidential election prefer Obama because "it's fair for a black man to win. Whites have treated blacks badly for so long." These are the political opinions of East Asian adults. Asians don't assimilate, and they're about as intellectual as you'd imagine they'd be coming from societies that demand absolute conformity and unity. Sent at: 2008 10 12