radioh3ad said:so they can do their thang over there? how ingenious. penal colony for charity. like a neo-australia with a heart.
Hehe, I know it looks like I'm copying you, but really I'm not. It seems we are thinking in parallel.
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radioh3ad said:so they can do their thang over there? how ingenious. penal colony for charity. like a neo-australia with a heart.
jtank said:i never understood the death penalty, wouldnt it be much more beneficial and efficient if the person was instead sent to africa or india or some other third-world country to help out???
like killing people there to lower the population? i suppose you could deport and enslave them and it would be about the same as killing them.mercaptovizadeh said:See, here you demonstrate that at heart you are just like SDNtheone. Because you have the attitude of the "third world" being some sort of penal colony for America's serial killers. Crazy! Besides, there's tons of "projects" in the US that need to be taken care of. Otherwise, I disagree with you, I would keep brutal murderers locked up for the rest of their lives (no death penalty, though).
Zuras said:You should be banned for lying about people.
Shredder said:i blame a lot on the liberals. we wouldnt have to fake it if the med school establishment didnt require it of us, which they absolutely do. i blame the right for giving in to "compassionate conservatism" to appease voters. since when was the right compassionate, theyre supposed to be hardliners! i think the liberals are pioneering the altruism bit and the right is passively tagging along, bc who wants to oppose it and look evil? med schools, especially the top ones, are awash in leftist thinking
Shredder said:like killing people there to lower the population? i suppose you could deport and enslave them and it would be about the same as killing them.
jtank said:and i hope embryonic stem-cells, women's right to choose, and so on...
SDNtheone said:wow... You sure are a proud hardliner republican...you should change you r avatar to pat buchanan 🙂
remember the republican party is based mainly on christian values which are not hardliner.
mercaptovizadeh said:The Republican party is garbage. As is the Democratic party. They both stink, but in different ways. And Republican has NOTHING to do with Christian.
SDNtheone said:I agree that they are both garbage but the republican party is the lesser of two evils...
also remember it was the christians that put bush over the top and made all the silly liberals that work in my lab (where i am a closet conservative) cry 🙂
mercaptovizadeh said:I don't want to point fingers. All I know is that Bush has represented war, the death penalty, and favoring the rich over the poor, as well as decaying social services. Christ did not allow war or executions, and we know what he says about mammon and loving your neighbor as yourself.
jtank said:no, you should be banned for always making obtuse remarks about others, i'm guessing you don't get along well with anyone that opposes anything you say.
forget it, we should just play nice..
yes, in a bipartisan society you have to make your choice. i too was in a research organization where i was an outright conservative, and i laughed at their crying. ppl in labs are always liberal bc labs are so sheltered from the realities of the worldSDNtheone said:I agree that they are both garbage but the republican party is the lesser of two evils...
also remember it was the christians that put bush over the top and made all the silly liberals that work in my lab (where i am a closet conservative) cry 🙂
Zuras said:Pretty ironic. Do you recall what you just wrote?
"dont mind him, he also believes in intelligent design 🙄 "
Now you are liar and a hypocrite. I bet you just want to forget it.
wow, getting back to the OP can be so hard after digression. first thing in the morning..ha its already there depending on where you live.jtank said:maybe someone should mention something re: the original topic or else this things getting moved first thing in the morning. i guess i will; i think asians have sort of a genetic predisposition to medicine if its already in the family, meaning if parents/relatives are docs.
Shredder said:yes, in a bipartisan society you have to make your choice. i too was in a research organization where i was an outright conservative, and i laughed at their crying. ppl in labs are always liberal bc labs are so sheltered from the realities of the world
jtank said:maybe someone should mention something re: the original topic or else this things getting moved first thing in the morning. i guess i will; i think asians have sort of a genetic predisposition to medicine if its already in the family, meaning if parents/relatives are docs.
Shredder said:i blame a lot on the liberals. we wouldnt have to fake it if the med school establishment didnt require it of us, which they absolutely do. i blame the right for giving in to "compassionate conservatism" to appease voters. since when was the right compassionate, theyre supposed to be hardliners! i think the liberals are pioneering the altruism bit and the right is passively tagging along, bc who wants to oppose it and look evil? med schools, especially the top ones, are awash in leftist thinking
SDNtheone said:Oh trust me I will be banned by tomorrow lol.. That is what happens when you say the truth you get shunned as a hardliner and the whole world jumbs on you... I dont think asians have a genetic predisposition to anything... i just think they make the ultimate sacrifice and subsequently get better scores... I know hardwork is valued in asian culture but, hardwork does not win nobel prizes....
radioh3ad said:you and your nobel prize argument. there's an increasing trend as science becomes more globalized that asians are getting more prizes.
/your argument
radioh3ad said:join the club. every lab i've been in, i've had to endure the ridicule of GOP, Jesus and good music (don't get me started - they hated my incubus and radiohead).
oh and i can't wait for Dr. David Ho to get Nobel Prize for his AIDS cocktail treatment development.
banned, doubt it, havent seen much reason for itSDNtheone said:Oh trust me I will be banned by tomorrow lol.. That is what happens when you say the truth you get shunned as a hardliner and the whole world jumbs on you... I dont think asians have a genetic predisposition to anything... i just think they make the ultimate sacrifice and subsequently get better scores... I know hardwork is valued in asian culture but, hardwork does not win nobel prizes....
Camillekc said:Is the level of latent (or not) racism in this thread bothering anyone but me?
If you want to talk about the stereotypes surrounding asians, perhaps you should first look at the stereotypes surrounding whites in this country (racist, xenophobic, etc.) and then look at yourself. Because, though it is difficult to tell from this thread, not all of "you guys" (whites) are bigots, just as not all asians major in science, never leave the library, and don't think originally. Perhaps you should get out of your bubble and do some thinking of your own on race relations before basing your comments on your own stereotypes, fears and insecurities.
I'm going to continue thinking well of the world and this country by assuming at least some of these comments were facetious.
AcousticDoc said:Unlike stereotyping black people, stereotyping and making fun of asians in todays society is perferectly acceptable and even humorous. Sad, but true.
jtank said:no, actually i was referring to the other day's thread that im sure you still remember.
anyways, if you have any more problems with me, PM me, you can berate me all you want.
arent they though? more money in the form of grants, so they can use it to do more research, which they enjoy? everyones seen how happy PIs are upon receiving whopping grants. and how depressed everyone is when grants get rejected. many of their grants are financed by generous, wealthy tycoons and foundations from the private sector. adcoms and their criteria are blatantly leftist, you can see it in their buzzwords--tolerance, diversity, community service, public good, underpriveleged, equalityCTSballer11 said:I see your point. The top medical schools are definately awash in leftist thinking, look at Harvard. This is my theory as to why top medical schools like Harvard, are so leftist. Harvard medical school is known for its innovation and medical advancements. Why is this do you think? Sure they have excellent minds there, but they want to produce academic docs. In my opinion, the majority of academic docs are not motivated by the money, more so the innovation and groundbreaking discoveries. These docs are more for scientific advances and despise socially conservative values like limiting stem cell research. Thus these people fall into the left and eventually these same people are now all on the Admissions COMS and Deans of there respective medical schools.
blacks are very good at causing ruckus to achieve their ends. and they can really rally and vote, all as one bloc, under jackson and sharptons guidance. hispanics to some extent. asians, indians-- nothing, they will keep chugging along without saying a word, keeping to themselves and just being grateful to be in this country. and i guess that is where they fall short.jtank said:i think it has something to do with the fact that asians as a whole are timid, shy, not outspoken, therefore not much protest against it. sad, but true
me and some other sdners have toyed with the idea of firing up a med school one day. maybe ill drop an email to my man donald and see if he takes it up, i wouldnt put it past him. convo threads are always fun and grow quickly, especially when theres heat. in fact thats how all the lounge threads get so huge and the posters there have such insanely high post counts.radioh3ad said:what if trump started his own medical school?
sigh. i enjoyed this thread. but goodnight.
10 pages in one night. kudos
Shredder said:blacks are very good at causing ruckus to achieve their ends. hispanics to some extent. asians, indians, nothing, they will keep chugging along without saying a word, keeping to themselves and just being grateful to be in this country. and i guess that is where they fall short.
its absolutely ok to make fun of certain races and not others.
Shredder said:arent they though? more money in the form of grants, so they can use it to do more research, which they enjoy? everyones seen how happy PIs are upon receiving whopping grants. and how depressed everyone is when grants get rejected. many of their grants are financed by generous, wealthy tycoons and foundations from the private sector. adcoms and their criteria are blatantly leftist, you can see it in their buzzwords--tolerance, diversity, community service, public good, underpriveleged, equality
Zuras said:3 adopted kids and your father "works at wal-mart?" Yeah, as what? Regional manager?
Zuras said:Spaniards are not Hispanics. I don't care what your TV tells you.
Shredder said:yeah...the distinctions they draw are pretty arbitrary. shouldnt portuguese be counted as hispanic too? or maybe not, i dont know. its all nonsense anyway, the concepts of urms and aa. im pretty sure spaniards dont get any aa, and im skeptical about cubans receiving it. cubans are a relatively successful bunch without having to rely on it.
visualwealth said:This is to all the racist haters who think afro-american have contributed nothing to this society.
Here is a few contributions listed.
Zuras said:
CTSballer11 said:Shredder you made a point earlier in the thread that a lot of asians are nerdy book worms, and that american society looks down at this. I think it is not beneficial to future patients to have a large group of physicians who are hermits, or social misfits. In highschool, there were 20 people in my calc class, 15 asians, 5 white kids (myself included). I did not know one single asian, I did not even know most of them attended the same highschool as me untill I saw these students in calc. These same students did not participate in the things americans take pride in, sports for example. I played football and baseball and I was asked by many of these students why I was wasting my time playing sports since I would never turn professional. I also never saw these kids at homecoming, winterfest, prom. They put studying above all else and that is why so many asians make up a large percentage of a medical school class. This is how it is and how it will continue to be, because the average american student is lazy. Do not flame me as it was not my intention to disrespect anyone here.
CTSballer11 said:Shredder you made a point earlier in the thread that a lot of asians are nerdy book worms, and that american society looks down at this. I think it is not beneficial to future patients to have a large group of physicians who are hermits, or social misfits. In highschool, there were 20 people in my calc class, 15 asians, 5 white kids (myself included). I did not know one single asian, I did not even know most of them attended the same highschool as me untill I saw these students in calc. These same students did not participate in the things americans take pride in, sports for example. I played football and baseball and I was asked by many of these students why I was wasting my time playing sports since I would never turn professional. I also never saw these kids at homecoming, winterfest, prom. They put studying above all else and that is why so many asians make up a large percentage of a medical school class. This is how it is and how it will continue to be, because the average american student is lazy. Do not flame me as it was not my intention to disrespect anyone here.
visualwealth said:Ok speaking of geocities lol. You might be the biggest ***** on SDN.
SDNtheone said:man you are dumb... AA is not a policy given to the poor it is given to the underrepresented and, most countrys with a diverse population practice it....
also if asians were so great why are they not number one in the world... Why are we whites still number 1??I will tell you why??Thinking out of the box, being well rounded, keep in mind that most scientist of old were not making the ultimate sacrifice like you guys... Their talent and ability to find things came naturally.. These days most of these guys are weeded out of the sciences b/c they are not willing to waste their whole weekend in a lab while you guys will gladly do it...
funshine said:I find this very hard to believe. just because you didn't SEE any asians at football games/parties etc. doesn't mean there weren't any present. Or do you specifically LOOK for asian people at all your high school functions? When did being nerdy necessarily exclude you from attending your school homecoming/prom/football activities? In fact, since when did being a nerdy bookworm mean you were also a social misfit or hermit?!?!? You should know that most people who go to top colleges in the US were nerdy bookworms in high school, and are proud to be that....Being nerdy is hardly limiting...it doesn't mean you're unathletic, unpopular, and don't pursue anythign outside academics. It simply means you love to learn, that you have an insatiable curiosity about the world, and I sure hope that's true of you if you're planning to go to med school!
I can't believe that you, as a future physician, can still hold such high-schoolish attitudes towards other races.
cfdavid said:Man, you really need to stop. I'm a proud "white" guy. But, others also have the right to be proud as well. This "you asians" suff has to stop. It sounds unintelligent and it's very divisive.
Yes, European Americans have a lot to be proud of. But, so does every other ethnic group in this country that works hard.
Please keep in mind that we're all way more alike than we are different. You really need to think of the bigger picture before making such blanket statements.
I hope my intuition is right in that you're just trying to be inflammatory. Because, I find it hard to believe that many people could be so narrow minded. Get with it.
AcousticDoc said:Do you Sdners who complain about asians being anti-social groups them together with Asian Americains? I find a lot of the bookwormish not participating in extra curricular stuff true with asian immigrants but definitly not true when it comes to Asian Americans. AAs do the same activities that other american races enjoy. I believe the bookwormish asian immigrants types are that way not because they are all nerds, but because they are in a different culture that they are not as familiar with.
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