Boy, 12, 'tried to detonate nail bomb' in Germany

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Mr Puggsly said:

VGPolyglot said:

Yes, but that doesn't mean that societal circumstances shouldn't be taken into account. For example, there are many white supremacists who put down blacks as lazy and praise Asians as being hard-working, completely ignoring the circumstances, like how many blacks were slaves and even afterwards were treated poorly which obviously facilitated poverty, while there was a blanket ban on Asians from immigrating for a while, so the Asians that did come were already well off, which meant that they generally did not become poor. I'm saying this is the same. We don't look at the circumstances surrounding the situation thoroughly enough.

Oh, I think one of the biggest differences you aren't acknowledging is Asian parents tend to show interest in their children succeeding in school and life in general.

If more people regardless of ethnicity did the same, you'd get surprisingly great results regardless of their financial situation.

In a nutshell, shit kids tend to have shit parents.

This is a stereotype in itself, be it a positive one.

My Mom is a kindergarden teacher and the Asian parents she's had to deal with, for the most part weren't any better than any of the other neglectful ones, even though they were highly educated well off people. One pair of parents in particular would refuse to hug or cuddle their child or show any type of affection in general, drop it off at the Kindergarden as much as humanly possible and then complain about how 'out of control' it was. Treating their kid as an unwelcome nuisance and then being surprised at the kid being unhappy.

Keep in mind that they absolutely except nothing but the best results from the kid and are bent on getting it in an elite boarding school, without any regard as to what the kid wants or needs or is actually capabale of, naturally. The kid has to look like a success story, other than that they don't give a shit.

This is negligence. The kid might not be underfed or dirty but emotinally starving someone is just as damaging in the long run and while this case is somewhat extreme its a tendency in East-Asian familys, related to their culture.

Off topic, sorry, but that comment just reminded me of the kid.