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Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by aviraldg on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:04PM (#24668293)
Why are you so quick to blame "backwards attitudes" when this behaviour is simply to meant to compensate for discrimination against Asians in college admissions? (https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-many-sins-...)

Asians with far better scores are deemed to be less worthy due to "uninteresting personalities" than others far less qualified.

I don't think it's difficult to understand why the children of people motivated enough to emigrate for better opportunities would themselves be ambitious and would want to establish themselves with stable, high performing careers (having almost no generational wealth to fall back on.)

Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by gautamcgoel on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:10PM (#24668325)
I think it's backwards to believe that the measure of your life is how prestigious a college you went to, or how much money you make, especially if these goals lead you to cheat and lie to advance.
Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by mav3rick on Saturday October 03, 2020 @07:18PM (#24675396)
You had a shitty circle of friends and are now projecting. I know many Indian-Americans who are hard working, creative and NEVER cheated. One doesn't need "Americanized" parents to be a decent person.
Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by bollu on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:32AM (#24670523)
> measure of your life is how prestigious a college you went to

In my experience, the prestige of a college definitely correlates with how rewarding your time at college is going to be.

Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by zabardasth on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:37PM (#24669305)
Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by Aeolun on Saturday October 03, 2020 @02:27AM (#24670052)
I dunno, I have no generational wealth to fall back on, but that has never really motivated my interest in a high performing career.

Of course, the career I chose just happened to be programming, so it did end up that way.

Re:Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India by dudul on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:58PM (#24668875)
So the solution to being rejected due to high grades and uninteresting personality is to study more, cheat for higher grades and spend less time developing an interesting, genuine personality?

Also, if scores were the only reason to enroll a student, people from poor background, especially black and Latinos would basically never get in.