When people doggedly pursue a passion and succeed, they’re called tenacious. When people who doggedly pursue a passion and fail, they’re called stubborn. It’s all relative, much like many points in this article.

As for point 3: Asians succeed because *other people* think they will succeed, that they’re “naturally” smart, and that they’re submissive and subservient. And, they get to play into the immigrant “dream”, that they risked so much to come to the US for a better life. Meanwhile, Asians do not suffer from “thug” or “gang-banger” stereotypes, that they’re stupid or “animals” or lazy, or that they’re all on welfare and single-mothers. To be blunt, when people use the n-word, which they still do, they aren’t referring to Asians.

I really do not have a problem with a group of people working hard to succeed and studying hard, and achieving a lot. But I do have a problem with someone from that group pretending like they did it all alone, without any help, and that they had it just as hard as everyone else.