On the Fact that the Chinese Minority in Malaysia Started off as Indentured Laborers (One Step Up from Being a Slave) and Were the Victims of Both Numerous Pogroms and Systematic Bias and Yet Today They're Achieving at a Rate that Is Significantly Higher than that of the Indigenous Malay Population to the Point Where the Latter Now Needs Affirmative Action Policies Just to Keep Pace

Culture matters and anyone who tries to tell you different, please, feel free to point this example out (along with the cases of Jews in Germany, Germans in Russia, Armenians in Turkey, Italians in Argentina, Ibos in Nigeria, Tamils in Sri Lanka, Japanese in Canada, etc., etc.).