Honestly, if you want to be on top in 10 years, spend your weekends toying with bitcoins, drones and/or 3D printers.
These areas will give birth to the new Facebook, and it's mostly white males who are playing with them right now. Get into it now, don't come whining in 10 years when a Hollywood movie is made about it and it suddenly becomes cool.
" if you want to be on top in 10 years, spend your weekends toying with bitcoins, drones and/or 3D printers."
how many black kids- or poor kids in India, for instance (consider Ramanujan) do you think are going to have the OPPORTUNITY to spend their weekends toying with bitcoins, drones and/or 3D printers?
There's a REASON it's mostly white males who are playing with those areas, and it's not "White Men Work Harder".
African mothers work harder than anybody else, walking tens of miles everyday to bring home water to their kids. Where's their well-deserved advantage?
The existence of 5-odd billion non-white people around the world isn't really discussed :)
But the point is we didn't work to build it. Merely being born were I was gave me extremely high odds of being amongst the richest people in the world.
At most you could claim my ancestors "worked to build it", but that's still a massive stretch - the main reason for the wealth I grew up around was oil and European imperialism.
I prefer to teach our kids culture.
You are a dick when you refuse to recognize when you are privileged and act to reinforce your privileged position.
Why should I feel proud that I am from the same country as Isaac Newton? Or shame about the bombing of Dresden? I had nothing to do with either of those things.