Obama says, “Wow – Asian kids are good at math!”

Jul 01

JohnUncategorized 1 Comment

OK, President Obama didn’t say that (in exact words verbatim) but in what is to be yet another surefire advancement towards the stereotype of Asian guys loving math, this year’s “Mathletes” from the 2010 national math competition (MathCounts) were uhm… you guessed it (even if you were too politically correct to say it out loud) a bunch of Asians. Have mixed feelings about this one…

this pic is from the White House website:

Obama meets 2010 math counts winners at white house

1 Asian guy, 2 Asian guys, 3....

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  1. josh
    Jul 12, 2010 @ 00:45:35

    Hey- you Asian kid in the library- can you answer this math problem for me? 9+)

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