I'm giving Henry too much credit here by assuming he's thinking about this topic, but one "example" of this is in educational success rates: when you disaggregate student data in the US by racial demographics, Asian student success rates trend higher than any other demographic, including white people. So a common argument people bring up is "why are we dumbing down Asian and white students for Black/Latinx/etc students?" Which is almost always a bad faith argument as these arguers use it as a way to justify their racist perspectives (similar to how people say stereotypes are okay because there are "good" stereotypes, like all Asians are good at math). There's an entire conversation to be had about why that is a bad faith argument, which isn't relevant here. What is relevant and ironic is that many Asian skaters, most notably Jerry Hsu, have spoken at length about how the strong emphasis on education, going to college and being a "success" was counter to everything that they wanted and were motivated by. Henry is implying that we should be encouraging this kind of cultural expectation- yet one of the most important skaters who've influenced skate culture is an Asian-American who did everything they could to not follow that expected path.
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