Why Are There So Few Successful Half Asians?

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I agree with you that he seems to be looking for famous or prominent names. I really do not know why and it does not matter because the request for a list is a red herring. If we made a list he would only tell us how hard it was or how long we took it to compile it, which of course it would take awhile because why would anyone have normal reasons to already know the specifics of what parent is which race without researching it.

I can't imagine any point to this that is not racist. I hope when/if he responds, that he can clarify what he is trying to say. The only thing I could think of that would not be racist is if he is saying that somehow these young (and yes, he seems to mainly refer to young men) Eurasians are being discriminated against specifically for having white fathers, which makes no sense to me. Discrimination would be for being biracial period, it would not depend on which parent is what. I

Is he claiming it is a genetic combination more apt to result in autism? If so, what is he saying about autistic people if he is saying they are so troubled as a result of this combination? Doesn't it conflict with the OP's usual positive outlook?

Is he saying white fathers and Asian mothers are especially bad at dealing with raising biracial kids? Why would that be? Are they especially bad at raising autistic kids? Why would that be? Are Asian fathers and white mothers and every other combination of races and parents good at raising biracial kids and autistic kids --except white dads and Asian moms? That makes no sense, and I agree would be offensive

Here is some of the content from the link eikonabridge posted:
"Racial bullying… uncaring parents (the Asian mother has high sex value in society, essentially she gets her white partner, the privilege that comes with it, and doesn’t want to be stressed at her own son’s lack of it)
The entitled Asian mother used her vagina to her advantage in getting a white partner to raise her stature or survive, with zero concern for how this reflects on the child, who is constantly reminded that he’s Asian and that “of course [his] mother is the Asian one.”
The half-Asian son looks Asian, and is repeatedly reminded that he is inferior to full whites by his own mother
Sociopathic Tiger Mom who belittles Asian blood and submissively plays up whiteness
Callous parenting by both parties, telling their children to “suck it up.”
Insane degree of fetishization, white worship, Asian-inferiority, race-playism, sexualized racism (i.e., Oriental vagina, white dominant penis) affecting the mindset of the child… the male child becomes the enemy of the parents, either reminding the privileged mother of her Asian blood, or of the men she feels superior to, or the daughter being mistaken for the father’s girlfriend.
Self hatred; i.e., the child wishes they were white for simplicity or convenience purposes"

This is racist, full of gross stereotypes and highly offensive. That you (eikonabridge) read this and believe it speaks to the truth is evidence that you, yourself hold racist beliefs about biracial white/ Asian people. It does not validate a truth, it only validates racist opinions. I suggest, if you do not like to consider yourself a racist (as I think you don't as you opened your original post with how you didn't notice your roommate was black in what seemed like an attempt to show us how you are not racist, I guess), you should take inventory of your beliefs about half Asian people and Asian women who marry white men.

Again, this link breaks the WrongPlanet rules. It contains racist content.

I didn't follow the links because I don't like to read disturbed people's rantings. I am glad I did not.

I hope this is not what Eikonobridge believes and is merely evidence that this one person is disturbed. Again, anecdotes are not data and mentioning that there are two mixed race males with mental issues, is not proof of anything.

I presume the point was to make his usual, invalid anecdote = data connection as opposed to intending to spread racist, sexist nonsense. But yeah, it is very, very reprehensible stuff.

One "succesfull racist" from mixed decent, was born to a Dutch father and a mother born in colonial Indonesia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dutch_Indos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo_people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_(mixed_ancestry)
one for you: Ladislas the Cuman, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1272 to 1290. His mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of a chieftain from the pagan Cumans.

I am talking about people I know around me, who I know in person.
I am not going to post their names on the internet.

I think you may be right. If this is the case, I wish that eikonabridge would be more mindful of the information being shared. However, I also suspect that eikonabridge has a little more suppressed, unconscious racism in his thoughts than he realizes, since it seems he so readily latched himself onto this disturbed person's thought patterns and deemed it as truth. I don't think he intended to be racist, though, but it's racist nevertheless.

Yeah, and I do not know why someone would even Google that in the first place, but what do I know?

Yes, when black people are bullied, they need 1 second, instant name to reassure that they are fine. They can react with: we are successful, look at who president Obama is, I can be successful, too. That's why all minorities have their role models. That why they all need role model names. When autistic children are bullied in school, they can re-assure themselves with names like Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, etc. That way, it's easy to let go the heat. Muslims? Mayor of London. Physically challenged? Stephen Hawking. Inspirational role models.


I am a theorist by training. I wouldn't be a theorist if I have have rely on a lot of evidence. All this have been explained before. Peter Higgs predicted his namesake particle in 1964. You can't accuse him of gross generalization with very little evidence. Nearly 50 years later, evidence came. Albert Einstein formulated General Relativity with scant evidence. Gravitational waves are confirmed only this year, 100 years after his theory. That's what theorists do. That being said, a few referees surely behaved like you did, and that was probably why Murray Gell-Mann's quark paper was rejected. Georg Zweig had it worse, though: he couldn't even give a talk about his work in CERN.


Be careful of calling people names. I'd advise you go through the writings and videos of "Eurasian Writer." You are falling into the stereotype he is describing. Don't do that. He puts up a lot of theatrical words in his writing. But trust me, he is reasonable. Does he advocate any ill actions against people he is accusing (his father and mother, or other WMAF white-male-asian-female couples)? Nope. To me, that is not racism. Donald Trump wants to take actions and ban Muslims from traveling to the USA. The "Eurasian Writer" advocates (from what I can see) zero action. I haven't gone through his postings, but my wife tells me that this guy is taking care of his schizophrenic brother and his own father. If he harbors so much hate, he wouldn't be doing that, right?

Think of it this way: if he were your son, what would you tell him? That's a much healthier angle.

Of course I know his case is not representative of all WMAF couples. But sweeping a problem under the rag doesn't make it disappear. There is a problem here, statistically speaking. Eurasian children are more prone to committing suicide. If you want to ignore this issue, it's your choice. The fact that the blog even exists, is an issue. The fact that so many Eurasian young adults have expressed the same opinion of the blogger, is an issue. Closing your eyes to an issue doesn't help. That's how we got Elliot Rodger in the first place. That's how Amanda Todd's case happened.

"What do you care what other people think?" That's the book title of Richard Feynman. You get disturbed by the blogger. The blogger gets disturbed by his racial identity. Neither of you is happy. Why? Because you are validating your existence based on the opinion of others. I have been called all too many names, here, and throughout my life. If I have to be disturbed by all that, I wouldn't have two of the happiest children in the world.

If the "Eurasian Writer" were my son, that's what I would tell him. I would also tell him that skills trump social success. Because, once you rise up with your skills, social success ensues.


Surprise, I did not.

I write all my messages for my children to read. I highly recommend everyone to do the same.

Yet you did not ask for one name, or a handful of names. You asked for 10 names. You asked for 10 names with a particular parentage composition. Obama's mother was white. Does that mean black people cannot use him as a role model after all? Of course not. Were black people and bi-racial blacks with a white mother in the weeds until he was elected, and now everything is fine? No. There was racism then and there is racism now. While it is nice to have a role model, that does not fix racism

If your point was that mixed-race Asian/white people don't have enough role models and you think it is a problem, then why not say that instead of starting a scavenger hunt. And again, why would a mixed-race child need the parental composition to be a certain way? Obama is actually a perfect example of that. Do you think only people who have the exact same mixture as Obama should see him as one of their own?




If you are working out a theory then say that instead of pretending your anecdotes are sufficient data.



I reluctantly went to his site, and while he maybe reasonable by the standards of Reddit, he is not reasonable by other more elevated standards. The names he has for Asian women who marry white men are racist. I am not going to type them because they are vile and against the TOS, but if you have read his meanderings, you know what they are.

He has issues with his parents? Fine. Maybe they are reasonable and maybe they are just his own failures that he wants to blame on them. I have no idea. Just because he takes care of his family members doesn't mean much, any more than I would conclude his dad must have been a great dad, for him to take care of him. Human relationships are too complicated to make assumptions like that.




The blogger frankly needs a qualified therapist. I am not saying this to be mean, but I really think he does. I don't think a person who is still harboring this amount of resentment for his parents and his apparent teenage dating failures after this length of time has really made peace with his life. He is married but yet still harbors resentment at women who would not date him. This is unproductive.



I don't think anyone who has posted on this thread has any more of a reason to think their children should be ashamed of what they wrote than you should.

Also, We brought up a very good point, you seemed to have ignored: Why were you Googling this in the first place? Do you have a predisposition to dislike intermarriages?

I think that this is another example of a sweeping generalization about black people, or any minority group. I wouldn't assume a way that any one person would feel reassured by being bullied. I also think that there are probably many other people in the world, besides myself, who don't hold fame in such high esteem that only a famous person can validate my right to exist or feel good about myself.



I think, personally, that comparing this theory of yours to the namesake particle, or General Relativity is kind of a stretch. As well as the comparison of me pointing out that the seeds of your theory are based in racism would be compared to someone trying to thwart the efforts of a great breakthrough.



I am not calling you names. Here is another definition:
Full Definition of name–calling. : the use of offensive names especially to win an argument or to induce rejection or condemnation (as of a person or project) without objective consideration of the facts.

I have considered the facts. The root of your theory, and the writings you cite is/ are racist, according to the definition of "racism." I do not care if that makes you feel uncomfortable, or reminds you of the feeling of when people were actually calling you names, what I have said is not "name-calling".



I will trust my own opinion of whether I find this person reasonable or not.



This does not make any sense to me. People are not "all good" or "all bad."





I had said nothing that I would be uncomfortable with my children reading. My children are Eurasian males. You have posted videos and writings that use profanity, and have both sexist and racist content. You, yourself, have enough of these sort of racist (against Eurasians) thoughts that you would think to spend time working out a theory about why all Eurasion males waste all of their thoughts on relationship issues instead of more important things, or why all Asian/ white interracial couples fail at raising their children. I am pointing out that these claims are racist, these ideas are racist, that they have no roots in the experience of many Eurasian males. I would be happy for my children to read this. However, I am surprised by what you are comfortable having your children read yourself.

Of the eurasian people I know, the parents are both highly successful, usually scientists or doctors, and they raised their children well, and the male and female children are highly successful as adults, in education, career, and relationships.

If I made sweeping conclusions on some anecdotal examples, I would say all eurasian people are highly successful, but I don't say that, because I don't make sweeping conclusions about large, diverse groups of people on some anecdotal examples.

The fact that the theorists behind some breakthroughs were turned away by the research community does not mean that every "theory" that happens to pass through your mind is factual.

It is unreasonable to present theories with scant evidence as fact before evidence has been identified. We now know that quarks are real, we didn't then.

I also rather suspect that those scientists drew their theories from existing science and built upon them, rather than creating it from a single blog that was found to match a specific, loaded search term on google or the use of videos to support learning in only two children. (Especially when the latter "theory" can be researched with existing infrastructure.)

Ben Silbermann (half German/Jewish and half Asian) is the founder of Pinterest. He is married to another Asian, Indian-American Divya Baskaran.

I would not call Ben "unsuccessful".

And I cannot believe that no one mentioned the most successful half-asian of them all, Steve Jobs, born of a white woman and a Syrian man. Whoever said half-Asians are unsuccessful needs to redefine success ! !

Are these your children with your Asian wife or yours from another marriage ??