<p>Hope Full, maybe we should do a serious survey on characters of “Asian” students. My S falls into your description of Asian stereotype to some extent. He loves Math and violin playing although he doesn’t want to be a doctor. When he was in Japan until 4th grade, he was only one violinist out of class of 120. After he had migrated to US, he found no other “Asian” violinist in his middle school and high school class, too. I don’t think Asian students EC is typically music is simply wrong. But in the classical music scene, there are many nice “Asian” musicians out there. It only means that “Asian” have relatively large number of nice musicians.
But yes, most of “Asian” students are rather quiet. So are east Europeans. From black & Anglo white standard, Asians are quiet. From Asian standard, …
“Asians” do Math well in US. But look at the world. US is the country of low level secondary school Math. Hard working students including many “Asians” can easily earn good points. As for humanities subjects, they tend to struggle because many “Asian” students are non native speakers of English. This may also apply to Hispanic.
Lastly, I would emphasize that “Asians” are not single. We differ so much in culture and we have so different socioeconomic situations. If the classification of ethnicity goes down to national origin level, you will find other groups as OR.
I don’t think most of “Asians” deserve AA. But they should be treated equally to other non-URMs.</p>