My question is are we (white and Asian) just smarter or they (brown/black) just dumber?
These are two ways of stating the same thing. If one group is smarter compared to another, then that necessarily means that the second group is dumber compared to the first. There is no gold standard against which to measure this sort of thing.
And it's not entirely accurate. These are about averages. On average, whites may be smarter, but this in no way says anything about the qualities of any individual white, no more than the higher IQs of Jews compared to whites says anything about individuals.
When a poor Asian with severe learning disability (without help) while putting minimal effort still surpass regular healthy brown/black students should be a major red flag. What is going on here? They have the exact same opportunity as anyone else.
They do, but they just don't use these opportunities well enough. Part of it no doubt is cultural - when Asian parents get mad at their kids for not being straight A students, while black kids get bullied by other black kids for 'acting white' when they do well in school, that no doubt has a huge effect on the incentives to do well in school.
These are two ways of stating the same thing. If one group is smarter compared to another, then that necessarily means that the second group is dumber compared to the first. There is no gold standard against which to measure this sort of thing.
And it's not entirely accurate. These are about averages. On average, whites may be smarter, but this in no way says anything about the qualities of any individual white, no more than the higher IQs of Jews compared to whites says anything about individuals.
They do, but they just don't use these opportunities well enough. Part of it no doubt is cultural - when Asian parents get mad at their kids for not being straight A students, while black kids get bullied by other black kids for 'acting white' when they do well in school, that no doubt has a huge effect on the incentives to do well in school.