I do not feel there is absolute truth to these stereotypes. This would be like stating that all geniuses are geniuses in math. As we have read there, have been geniuses that have excelled in specialty areas, but none to a zone. Also, the artists that excelled in a specialized area were the ones that put effort and time into as well as having opportunities. …show more content…
It is interesting that in Chapter 3, Gladwell states “We know were analytical intelligence comes from. It’s something at least in part; that’s in your genes.” (pg 101) Now Gladwell is taking a different approach that is not innate. According to Gladwell; he attributes the “Asians” students are fortunate in success in math because they worked on the rice fields and they were hard workers. I am sure that many people who worked on the rice field were also not great in Math, it is not only working in the rice fields that makes you smart and the long hours it has to be the parental involvement of being vested their child's education to make them study. Asian parents as well parents of other youth were brought us with education, real parentage good work ethics, many encouraged studying at an early age that they developed careers in people in business and statisticians. I do not believe that the students are working on rice cultivation. It could be that the parents of children worked on the rice cultivation were involved in math and stressed the importance of education and school and long hours, and it had nothing to do with the rice.
We can go back to the Chapter that states persistent doing something over for an extended period usually follows with success through repetition. Many educational milestones, not just math can be made by putting in the time 100,000-hour rule. Thus, according to Gladwell, it is at once unsurprising and telling that American students believe that math skills are innate, while “Asian” students attribute their success in math to hard work, then work hard, then succeed.
To give Gladwell’s argument more faith, I would have to know more statistics on the other countries and why they to not stand out as much as China.
Thus, I am referring to “The top ten rice producers in the world” according to data gathered by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for 2009 (Bern …show more content…
would) China India Indonesia Bangladesh Vietnam Thailand Myanmar Japan Philippines Brazil
The Chinese are not the only rice farmers in the world; 11 other countries produce significant amounts of rice.
They are also known for their hard work and time. Why are these other countries noted as being better in math than the China? South China grows more rice do they perform better in Math than their northern friends.
It may have to do with upbringing and culture, not about putting in all the time working with Rice Patties. Other countries that produce a significance amount of rice is Thailand, in Burma, and in the Philippines.
Gladwell states “They are the kind of places where for hundreds of years, poor peasants, slaving away in the rice patties three thousand hours a year, said things to one another like? “No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fail to make his family rich.” (Gladwell 249)
I do feel that there is a strong relationship between persistence and success and if you do anything for many hours, days you will become more successful. Why are they not just ass intelligent in other nine countries as China is not the only rice producing
country.
Also, the peasants who slave away three hundred sixty days a year do not have affluent families and remain farmers each year. Why are they not selling their crop?
I do not feel that the Asians did well on Math simply because they grew rice. I think it is more of a cultural thing that they have a social environment that focuses on education and they do well in math because they put the years and time into their studies.