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Innovative lessons from Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the global Innovation Economy

Posted by Black Innovation on Sunday, February 13, 2011 · 1 Comment

My mother gave me a good piece of advice early in my life when she said that “Even a stopped clock is right twice per day.” Her point was a basic one: Just as an otherwise useless, broken clock displays the correct time twice daily, I don’t have to adopt whole hog anyone’s ideas to recognize a truth in something they have said.

It is off of that advice that I must confess to be largely in agreement with a famous quote of the German-Prussian statesman of the late 19th century, Otto von Bismarck, who said “Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.”

Having recently read an excellent commentary by U.S. Rep. Mike Honda and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke titled “Asians, Pacific Islanders among leaders in innovation,” highlighting the extraordinary contributions that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are making to boost U.S. innovation and increase our national competitiveness, I believe that Black Americans can learn plenty from the experience of the Asian American and Pacific Islander minority.

Experience of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Honda and Locke note that with 1.1 million firms, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have the highest rate of business ownership among all minorities, and their businesses account for fully half of all minority business employment in the U.S.

I have little doubt that the amazing performance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is meaningfully attributable to and driven by their disproportionately high achievement in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math).

The U.S. Department of Education reports that STEM fields make up 15.9 percent of all bachelor degrees awarded; and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ degree concentration in the STEM fields is disproportionately high at 21.8 percent.

Moreover, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders also have a higher STEM bachelor’s degree completion rate at 31.2 percent than do White, Black and Hispanic Americans.

These trends bode well for continued and growing economic contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, as by 2018, the top thirty fasted growing occupations will be in STEM fields requiring a bachelor’s or higher degree.

I wish to be clear that these statistics are not intended in any way to undermine or otherwise diminish Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ admirable risk-taking and cultural propensity to create new enterprises. Rather, the statistics simply underscore the foundational elements of the 21st century Innovation Economy and how these elements manifest over time as real prosperity.

Asian Americans account for half of minority employment in US

Lessons for Black Americans

The BICI is unalterably committed to the proposition that the root of innovation and competitiveness is STEM education. And the experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are clearly demonstrating that STEM education is also the root of 21st century economic success.

We, Black Americans, are no fools. The compelling nature of “the experience of others” — in this case, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders — provides unmistakable and valuable lessons that we should and will learn as a new narrative emerges in our communities.

Johnathan Holifield, Trim Tabber

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@_A_ LOL. Oh now she wants to be recognized as black. She doesn’t usually act as ifblack issues are a concern of hers. Always siding with the whites when they are wrong.

Oh, boo hoo! WHAT movie did she DONE lately? How many broke box office records(like Halle Berry’s)??? Guess kissing the White booty doesn’t ALWAYS work, doesn’t it?????

hummmm…something tells me that Whoopie’s feelings were hurt. I have no idea how I know this….I just do. :)

This is a horribble article blog foreal.”Whoopi Goldberg”.

Sloppy writing? How about sloppy reading. I hope Miss Whoopi eats some crow on her show today for not reading the article correctly. A truly big person doesn’t need constant affirmation. Whoopi needs LOTS of attention!

OH wow somebody forgot mammy’s Oscar,i bet this is the first time in a long time that she felt like a black person.And i bet she thought that whitefolks carried her home on their minds,now she’s feeling seriously forgotten.

Oh goodness I was embarrassed for her. I know she’s an oscar winner, I know she’s rich, I know she knows a lot of important people I know she’s intelligent so why in the world would she need more and more and more attention and then to bring her oscar to the show was just pitiful. She was good in that movie Ghost but not great. I’m anti Oscar anyway. All those rich, spoiled actors seem never to be satisfied.

SHe not the ONLY one to cry…..Sidney, Denzil, Spike, etc…….they MOVED ON, and so can YOU……

Black folks are right to disown her ass. F**k her.

WOW…..OUR PEOPLE CAN BE THE CRUELIST WHEN IT COMES TO US SOMETIMES….

IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MANY BLACK ISSUES WHOOPIE HAS TACKLED, WHO

SHE SCREWED IN THE PAST, OR WHO HER FRIENDS ARE….WHOOPIE IS AN

INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS BLACK AMERICAN ACTRESS…AND FOR A GIANT

MEDIA COMPANY TO OMIT “ANY BLACK CONTRIBUTION TO ANYTHING

POSITIVE” IS A DISRERESPECT TO ALL BLACKS….IF THEY OMIT HER, THEY SHOW

THEY CAN OMIT OR LIE ABOUT ANY BLACK PERSON!!! FURTHERMORE, THIS IS

THE SAME TYPE OF THING THAT WHITES HAVE DONE ON SOME OF OUR BEST

HISTORY, SO MUCH SO, THAT EVEN MANY BLACKS ARE UNAWARE…..JUST KNOW

THIS ISN’T JUST ABOUT WHOOPIE, IT IS ABOUT HOW WE AS A PEOPLE ARE

TREATED……THIS MISTAKE WAS NO ACCIDENT……THEY DON’T DO THIS SORT OF

THING TO WHITES OR JEWISH PEOPLE…. SO WHY SHOULD WE CHEER AS IF THIS

IS JUST A INDIVIDUAL THING OR BECAUSE YOU DISLIKE WHOOPIE….

BLACKS DESERVE RESPECT!!!

@sunshine80ca: when is your trial sermon…..PREACH!

ahhhhh poor whoopie. why you doin my girl whoopsy like that for?