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Yes, I recall reading that Ben Franklin thought Germans were too stupid to make it in America[1]. So you have really good company with this opinion.

For the record my father grew up a shoeless jungle peasant in Nicaragua. At 35 he nearly lost his hand in a factory accident in Brooklyn. So he took college courses at night and eventually became a top DB admin at various institutions in NYC. He had something to prove so he just worked harder than all his peers. He was a man of his word of high integrity so he was given ever increasing responsibility.

Maybe he'd do poorly in a quantum physics class. But I'd prefer a citizens with integrity and ambition (this is within anyone's reach) over a one that scores well on a standardized test.

[1]https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...



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