Intelligence was not valued in black culture when I was growing up and I'd argue is still not.
I could be way off the mark here, but to me it seems like the reason for this is that if one has been blaming external factors for all of their failings, it doesn't feel good to see someone with the exact same limitations pushing ahead. It hurts the excuse that one has been making to oneself about what the reasons for not being successful are.
But as embarrassing as it might feel to have others surpass oneself, dragging others down is never a good way to handle it. Fixing that really requires a culture shift and I'm not sure that any amount of changes from the outside can have a notable impact (if anything, pushing too hard for change from the outside can make people stick harder to their ways of thinking).
Asians in the US are more motivated to study, it's the culture. It doesn't take a lot of dedication to studying to get a major advantage over those that don't study as hard.
This is a meaningless claim, and also the fact that you are hardly exposed to the innovation that Asia brings to the table, only US. (Note what website you are writing this on)
But you can't compare the innovation of China to the US... for the time being. Admittedly the inflection point is coming soon if the US doesn't get it's head out of its ass.
further, we shouldn't assume the "most intelligent" rise to the top in terms of hegemony and leadership ex. Trump and our world governments in general.
There is a whole narrative that people are equal and have same capabilities.
Anyone can be a sport start if trains enough or a super scientist if study enough.
Then looking at statistics it is not true.
The same people with cognitive dissonance claim that because social factors, etc. Usually whites get a better treatment thus because and only because of that they have better representation in certain areas (only certain).
Then a lot of money is poured in programs to fix that. Because the narrative says all people are equal.
The opposing narrative says that IQ is genetic and it reflects on career that needs IQ so it really does not matter it will always reflect that.
The two narratives are fighting: social-economics vs genetics and if its a fair fight.
Came the asians.
Poor, non-english skills, living in bad neighborhoods.
They start getting advanced classes more than white. They advance more.
Then looking at statistics we can see Asians have higher IQ and looking on Advanced programs we have Asian as the largest, Whites as second and others as third.
Bang one narrative suffers a blow. Then they start changing rules. "Asians are White". "We need to make it more equal" meaning removing asians from programs.
While these boths narrative fight we as whole suffer.
As I want the best players on Soccer I want the best players on Medical field or Math.
I really don't care if the whole Math department is Asian. I care about the results to the society.