An Article on Racism and Classism

I just read an article about the Tiger Mom (Amy Chua) and her new views of success and how to attain it in this 21st century.

I haven't read her new book "Triple Package" but from the writer's analysis it's an ugly piece of work.  I cannot wait to get my hand on it and find out what all the hullabaloo is about.  You see according to the writer, she espouses that certain groups have been raised to believe they are special and have a manifest destiny to become great or successful in life.  It's lists the Jews, Indian-Americans, Chinese, Mormon's, Lebanese, Nigerians, Cubans and Iranians.  The basis of this analysis is based on the fact that most of these groups have a chip on their shoulder that drives them to succeed and prove that they are indeed the 'chosen people' in the world.

Reading the analysis, it is easy to agree with the writer that yes, something is definitely wrong with their point of view, but what is scary is how they have played with people's insecurities to espouse a selfish world view that builds on gaining more and more in a world where resources are already scarce.

Now I cannot help but wonder how true can their words be...  But then I am a student of history and I realize that God is in control and his Will will be done on Earth as he wants it to be.  Though I understand this intellectually sometimes I cannot help but marvel at "Why did it have to be like this?"  Why did Jane and not Jill have to be poor and wretched?

You see  India is a country of over 1 Billion people and not all of them are successful. In fact the great unwashed masses are living in squalor and poverty.  So how can these people that believe themselves to be master's of the world allowing their brethren to suffer like so?  To take what a select group of people that have managed to make it into the United States is doing as representative of a whole racial group is doing is such a bad method of analysis.

The United States was called 'mecca della dolla' by Italian peasants that emigrated here in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Why?  Because over here people could work, send money back home and still manage to live comfortable lives.  The spirit of this country is to make money (gain resources) and that has always been its driving point since its foundation by a private Corporation (The Virginia Company) 400+ years ago.  People forget this essential fact to their own detriment sometimes.  Everything else, the infrastructure, the governmental bodies, the society was built to provide a means for corporations to exploit the residents and others (international) of their resources and energy.

But before I digress, To get back to the scope of my original subject "racism and classism", I wonder about Mrs. Chua-Rubenfeld's premise that it is people's hard work that brings them success.  What part does God factor into all this?

See, this is what I mean ~ To say Africans, Latin Americans (which have become a racial group of their own... though many are but a mixture of African, European and Native American heritage) and others are inferior because they don't have a culture of believing in their own manifest destiny is a racist statement.  Everybody believes they are part of a group that is the center of the Universe in the eyes of the Creator (Father to us all).  We have this ingrained in us as children, because we are the focus of all the attention of our parents and it takes years of careful 'deprogramming to rid us of this mindset.  + Why is having a culture that believes in its own superiority necessarily a good thing?  The Jews believed they are the chosen people of God (and in a manner of speaking they are correct... The Creator came through the Jewish people) but look at how they treated the Savior of Humanity (the blessing of Abram, the Portion of Jacob) and how they were punished by the almighty because of it.  tsk tsk tsk

>So many people are slaves that work very hard across the globe and are not allowed (by circumstance, their masters and even by just their location) + the lack of knowing they can change.   Why have those people not found peace and leave away their slavery?

>Wealth is not found in money, cars and nice cars or nice clothes.  True wealth is found in God himself, nothing more, nothing less.  You may search the whole world, create a lot of mental paradigms to associate with wealth and convince yourself that your gaining material resources will allow you to change the material outlook of others but remember this always... If you cannot be generous with little, you will not be generous with much.