Just as the remarkable success of dark-skinned Black and Asian immigrants indicates that the problems of “the hood” are not primarily due to contemporary racism, so also does the fact that working-class and poor whites experience these problems at roughly the same levels as Blacks. Interestingly, Chua and Rubenfeld noted this phenomenon in passing when discussing immigrant success, noting that below the most elite levels of society, white American parents today are “more focused on building children’s social skills and self-esteem” than on actually teaching their kids business skills or the
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