Jiang says Indian and East Asian immigrant groups often do well economically in America because of intense educational competition, technical training, and hard-work norms.
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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East Asian men may have high income and academic performance but still hold lower American social status than their income would suggest.
Jiang says he accepts moderate income through Substack but avoids lottery-like gains because greed and trauma-inducing windfalls would blind him to his true purpose.
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"today we will look at immigration who wins the game of immigration and who loses why do they win why do they lose okay..."
"...they make about 70,000 u.s. a year this is just average income but then what's troubling is that as you go lower you find..."
"...status okay status in america is not as great as their income would suggest in fact you could make the argument that east asian..."
"you want but after a million dollars people are gonna come knocking your door and ask you and ask you where's my cut okay..."
"...it um i do have a sub stack which generates reasonable income okay um so yeah i want i want to generate income but..."
"...How can I feed my family? I have no source of income because the people in Florence who exile me have stolen everything from..."
"...would like to thank my Substack community. So most of my income this past year has come from Substack. The subscribers have been very..."
"...40%. Okay. So basically trying to save 40 % of their income. That's just ridiculous, right? And so it's all this cash in the..."
"...not willing to buy things. People aren't working. People are losing income, all right? The economy is not doing well. At the same time,..."
"...are Chinese savers, why are they saving 40 % of their income? Well, a lot of reason is because Chinese aren't that wealthy. So..."
"...really about where can I put my money to generate more income, because that's not going to happen. It's really about how do I..."
"...Meaning I didn't have a job, meaning I didn't have much income, meaning I didn't have much hope in my life. And so I..."
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