When I was in university (I attended a university for both undergrad and grad school), I noticed some trends in what sorts of majors young people from various backgrounds signed up for.
Asian kids: Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese, Korean, etc, normally studied science. As a result, there are a lot of Asian people working in industry, Tech, computer, and technical fields within media companies, and so on. Meanwhile, most kids from the US tended to study Business. Law schools had lots of US kids, but also kids from Jewish backgrounds, as well as from families where one or both parents were already lawyers. The kids of teachers often went into teaching, though how rewarding that was, from a professional point of view, depended on how motivated their students were. (Truly gifted teachers could work with even moderately willing students, but I personally found it difficult. )
What sports did kids get into? Business majors were often into Golf, and Football.
These choices are seen in the makeup of the various professions: I see lots of white Americans in Business; lots of Indians and Asians in News media. It isn't a clear as I expected, but there do seem to be trends.
In quite unrelated news, I'm reading that the prez seems to be spiraling, feeling that he's losing control of all the shenanigans he's been juggling, including the war, and foreign policy generally. That last: foreign policy, is not something that can be improvised under pressure. You have to have two things ready: a clear philosophical basis for all your actions; some people would call that a moral foundation; and a strong team behind you, and armed forces that believe in your leadership. Trump had 0 for 2. If he's reading this (or if his assigned reading assistant is reading this, because I don't think Trump can read efficiently) they would declare that I'm biased, and disregard the whole post. At least, they would have, if Trump was all right. But everything points to Trump being senile. Trump certainly majored in business and golf.
Kay
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