Ethnic Chatter

 I was looking at data that the Census folks had....from 2013....and there's this statistic that I thought was interesting.

Roughly 28-percent of (average) Americans have some kind of Bachelor's degree.  

However, if you said Korean-American ethnic heritage....it's 53-percent.

If you were talking about Japanese-American, it's 46-percent.

If you were talking about Indian-American, it's 70-percent.

In that same time period, if you were talking about take-home pay....the average American took home around $56,200 a year.

But if you were talking about Taiwanese-Americans?  It's $82,500 a year.

Chinese-Americans?   $69,500.  

Begs the question....is there more effort put out by certain cultures?  

Ten Thoughts

 1.  It used to be in a random week, I'd see one item which would be identified (in my mind) as a conspiracy theory, and once a year....one became a non-conspiracy situation (meaning it was actually true).

In the past couple of months, I probably notice three conspiracy theories per day now, and at least three of them in a week....will eventually turn out to be true.  

What's really going on?

2.  We have a cult-like political spectrum now....with folks basing their their entire political ideology....on one single politician, and they live in fear that that one guy might suddenly disappear or go away.

3.  Ever noticed how often the term 'demystifying' now occurs in your day?  As a kid in Alabama....I probably heard the term used two or three times over a decade.  Today?  It's almost every single day....some guy or gal utters it.

4.  So the death of Lisa Marie Presley....was all about losing 50 pounds in a short amount of time?  

More or less.  Based on how it's described....I doubt if she consumed more than 500 calories a day of some milkshake and some pills to 'juice' her up with imaginary energy.  

Your body can only take x-amount of punishment.

5.  There's always....something fundamentally wrong, but you tend to waste an hour before you reach this conclusion.

6.  Maybe it's just me, but after the FBI has wasted around 10,000 man-hours hunting for Joe Biden's documents....seems like someone should get a bill for the 'service'.

7.  Ever gotten the feeling when listening to VP Harris...that she's lecturing at the level of a 7-year old kid?

8.  Some kind of political push going on in the Senate....over the Christmas period airline 'mess'.  Result will probably be a doubling of the mess for 2023's Christmas period.

9.  If you aren't paying attention to what's going on in Peru....it's about 75-percent of the way to an all-out civil war.  All of this...because the President wanted to dismiss the Congress there, and just run the country by decree....so he got arrested and thrown into jail.

10.  I started on the new HBO series...'The Last of Us'....topic of zombies, but done in a different sort of way.

Will admit....it's probably one of the better shows on TV at present.