--- In [email protected], "Bob Giramma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Suppose two children are born on the same day. One is raised in an urban black neighborhood in Detroit. The other is raised in a suburban Jewish neighborhood outside Boston. Can you predict which child is likely to be more successful in life? > > I bet most people will bet on the second child succeeding, and the statistical record is heavily in their favor. The only difference of which we are aware are the comparative cultural environments in which those children are raised. I've told you nothing else about the children in this scenario. _____________________________________________________________________ You have also told us nothing about the two cultures the two children are to be raised in. You have only told us the racial/ethnic identity of the neighborhoods. Sounds racist to me. In fact, no prediction can be made about the likelihood that a particular individual child will be more or less "successful" than any other child by examining the collectivist circumstances of the neighborhood in which that child is raised - whatever collectivist criteria you want to use. Why is it that many children who are raised in urban black neighborhoods, including some from Detroit, go on to be enormously successful in their chosen fields while many children who are raised in surburban Jewish neighborhoods, including some around Boston, have only mediocre success in those same chosen fields? Why is it that some children who are raised in urban black neighborhoods and some children who are raised in suburban Jewish neighborhoods often enjoy equal or comparable success in their chosen fields?
