Usually discussion of white anxiety focuses on growing economic inequality, the decline of the middle class, and the influx of immigrants resulting in a minority-majority country (not that I necessarily agree with these). But I think there's another source of anxiety which isn't often discussed: white stupidity.
What I mean is whites look around and see that South Asians are dominating the National Spelling Bee (19 of the last 23). I don't have an article to link to but I believe that students with immigrant backgrounds are also out competing "whites" in what used to be the Westinghouse Science Competition. The new suit charging Harvard discriminates against Asian students forces "whites" to recognize their grip on claims to superiority in test-taking is slipping away.
To rub salt into "white" dreams of superiority Asian women have dominated the LGPA.
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