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Ivy League Morons

An Ivy League professor, whose parents were originally from China, has written in the Wall Street Journal on why Chinese excel academically and how she brought up her two high-achieving daughters.

Zahir Ebrahim, who graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, counters that there are too many "morons" in Ivy League circles.

Zahir himself is originally from Asia, in his case from Pakistan.

by Zahir Ebrahim

The Saturday Essay in the WSJ of January 8, 2011, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," caught my attention on a rebel website. The story of the high achieving Chinese immigrant family seeking and living their "American Dream" had as of this writing received 5,471 public comments at the WSJ website. Both the essay and the public comments are rather telling of the making of the “Good American,” just like their counterpart, the “Good German,” in not too distant a memory. I wrote the following letter to Amy Chua, whose impressive bio from Yale university faculty website is as follows:

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