This is how normal people talk about race — usually in private

Luckily, Penelope Trunk is too autistic to realize how weird it is to be this candid in public:

At cello camp my son’s classes are about 80% Asian. It’s like being a Jew in NYC – sort of  a demographic optical illusion. We are at ground zero for the Tiger Mom. We are at a camp where six-year-olds play cello for five hours a day. (…)

But at cello camp I find that I’m the laid back, bar-is-low mom. My son played ping-pong with little white girls in between classes. There was one soccer ball in the whole camp, and my son joined the other kid. Who was white, of course. (…)

…when those kids graduate from college, the Asians don’t do well in corporate America. Because Asians are generally taught to follow rules, learn what’s on the test, and don’t make a scene: The exact wrong stuff to learn if you want to succeed in corporate America.