Re:Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘famil...
by coldtea on Saturday August 27, 2016 @09:19AM
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>It's also about familial/class privilege. Once you get in with a good mentor (for academics that means advisor)...it sets you up for life. Getting into a good lab (train under uber mentor X or Y), no matter if your work is crap or not will gain you citations and socialization that a lesser one would not.
Which is similar to the reason why blacks haven't bounced back from slavery that "ended in 1865". The started from less than zero. Not only poor (immigrants also arrived and started poor), but also seen as dangerous/inferior etc and having to face Jim Crow laws etc, segregation (up until the 70s), redlining, poorly funded school districts, etc.
That held them down far longer than most other races, e.g. asians, jews, irish etc had to face (with the posisble exception of latinos), and never allowed them to build enough "familial/class privilege" to sustain mass movement to middle class/upper middle class.
Which is similar to the reason why blacks haven't bounced back from slavery that "ended in 1865". The started from less than zero. Not only poor (immigrants also arrived and started poor), but also seen as dangerous/inferior etc and having to face Jim Crow laws etc, segregation (up until the 70s), redlining, poorly funded school districts, etc.
That held them down far longer than most other races, e.g. asians, jews, irish etc had to face (with the posisble exception of latinos), and never allowed them to build enough "familial/class privilege" to sustain mass movement to middle class/upper middle class.