Let's not look at college as the place to throw blame around. College is something that requires money to get into. Not really a level playing field when you start talking about who should get in.. If we can solve the problem before college, the problem doesn't exist in college.. Going back in time.. Public schools in the inner city (and other places where minority youth don't achieve the same level as the white majority in academics) can do little to prepare children for a self-sufficient and rewarding life in the state that they are in now. Inner city schools are basically cattle farms with too few teachers. It's pathetic. First though, keep asking yourself the question WHY before you find the blame.. Why do inner city schools suck? Lack of funding? Partly.. But I'm sure you can find a "majority" (not of the minority) school in suburban America with similar funding per student and not as many problems in motivating students toward greatness.. So why? Growing up, every child is shaped by their environment. It's not always predictable, but I believe it safe to assume that children that grow up in poor surroundings (not just poor themselves) are going to feel less a need to rise above it. It's a comfortable kind of depression, being with your people, and it can hold you back.. If a child grows up poor in rich surroundings, that can motivate the child to achieve more, maybe out of spite, maybe out of subconscious reflex to become part of the surrounding "culture". This is the part you can read if you want to flame me. I think subpopulations divided by race and culture can be dangerous to themselves. When you take into account the dynamics of multiculturalism and isolate a culture (or race) from the mainstream, you shut it off from new ideas and aspirations. And from that cultural isolation also comes economic isolation and academic isolation. This goes against yearnings for minority pride, as it may look like pride and individuality (and culture!) are being sacrificed for membership (geographically, economically, academically) in the majority. This doesn't have to happen though. America is not a place where a culture ceases to survive if the members of the culture cease to stick together.. This isn't Serbia, or Nazi Germany - please.. And it won't get that way if there is integration. And if you're afraid your culture will cease to exist if you integrate yourself, ask yourself what your culture is based upon if not integrating it strangles the nourishment of the mind. S.
This page distinctly reminds me of the fantastic AI-gone-bad movie Demon Seed (1977 starring Julie Christie?) where the AI Prometheus built a "fractal" robot build upon a pyramid structure. Maybe it was an inspiration?
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Let's not look at college as the place to throw blame around. College is something that requires money to get into. Not really a level playing field when you start talking about who should get in.. If we can solve the problem before college, the problem doesn't exist in college.. Going back in time.. Public schools in the inner city (and other places where minority youth don't achieve the same level as the white majority in academics) can do little to prepare children for a self-sufficient and rewarding life in the state that they are in now. Inner city schools are basically cattle farms with too few teachers. It's pathetic. First though, keep asking yourself the question WHY before you find the blame.. Why do inner city schools suck? Lack of funding? Partly.. But I'm sure you can find a "majority" (not of the minority) school in suburban America with similar funding per student and not as many problems in motivating students toward greatness.. So why? Growing up, every child is shaped by their environment. It's not always predictable, but I believe it safe to assume that children that grow up in poor surroundings (not just poor themselves) are going to feel less a need to rise above it. It's a comfortable kind of depression, being with your people, and it can hold you back.. If a child grows up poor in rich surroundings, that can motivate the child to achieve more, maybe out of spite, maybe out of subconscious reflex to become part of the surrounding "culture". This is the part you can read if you want to flame me. I think subpopulations divided by race and culture can be dangerous to themselves. When you take into account the dynamics of multiculturalism and isolate a culture (or race) from the mainstream, you shut it off from new ideas and aspirations. And from that cultural isolation also comes economic isolation and academic isolation. This goes against yearnings for minority pride, as it may look like pride and individuality (and culture!) are being sacrificed for membership (geographically, economically, academically) in the majority. This doesn't have to happen though. America is not a place where a culture ceases to survive if the members of the culture cease to stick together.. This isn't Serbia, or Nazi Germany - please.. And it won't get that way if there is integration. And if you're afraid your culture will cease to exist if you integrate yourself, ask yourself what your culture is based upon if not integrating it strangles the nourishment of the mind. S.
This page distinctly reminds me of the fantastic AI-gone-bad movie Demon Seed (1977 starring Julie Christie?) where the AI Prometheus built a "fractal" robot build upon a pyramid structure. Maybe it was an inspiration?