We had 'Asian road chaos' every fall where the rich ones would show up with their new Bugattis (edit: Maseratis) having never learned how to drive the thing and much less on the open American roads where you can really let the accelerator loose. They would cause endless crashes.

One or two of poor ones would end up committing suicide in the spring when they flunked out and had spent their entire little farming family's fortune back in some austere rice farming village.

It was quite the sight to see. I want to say they were fairly normal in intelligence, relatively, but the set of incentives for them to perform were wildly different.

Holy racism

Fwiw there’s like 1000 Bugattis in the world so you really must have gone somewhere super duper elite! Monaco perhaps?

> had spent their entire little farming family's fortune back in some austere rice farming village.

Depends on tier of university.

At Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the asian international students are moderately rich (US$10 million+ net worth) from tech or manufacturing businesses.

You must've been pretty busy hanging out with a statistically significant quantity of all of them.

I was being generous when I wrote the comment. Several of the internationals left me baffled about how they got there. The liberal HN audience here clearly has an axe to grind.

That still doesn't mean your experiences generalise in any useful way, and using phrases like 'liberal HN audience' only serves to highlight your own biases.

It doesn't take a right-winger to see the tilt.

Thats the very definition of “anecdata”. (Anecdotes you mistake for representative data)