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lol, they’re good in asia. and most asian people pretty much stay in asia</p>
<p>Your average joe in America doesn’t know half the top-ten schools within the US why would you expect him to know the best school in another country. The same applies to people in other countries. Everything is relative.</p>
<p>dude, it’s not that we like school, it’s just that our parents force us to do well.</p>
<p>my parents are from india, and they were both from poor families. so poor, that my dad used to live in a house that didn’t even have a roof. my grandparents were refugees, so there were times that they couldn’t even afford food. can you imagine what their lives were like? education was their only ticket out of their economic situation. they studied hard, moved to the u.s., and got good jobs. </p>
<p>when my brother and i were born, their mentality that education should be placed above all else stuck with them. the only reason why i would pay attention and frantically do homework when i was really young was because i didn’t wanna get my ass beat around report cards time. hell, the first time i got a B in a class was when i was in 8th grade, and my dad went crazy.</p>
<p>when i got older, i guess i was so used to striving for A’s that i didn’t even think about what my parents thought anymore. i just wanted good grades because it made me feel good. i like being good at what i do.</p>
<p>Look up S.K.Y universities for South Korea. S.K.Y is the equivalent of Ivy league.</p>
<p>does any one know any really successful asians in this country??? i mean really, grades only get you so far…there are social skills, networking, friendships, etc that are just as important and taken together are more important to future success than grades…i wish these asian parents would understand this</p>
<p>don’t forget about us jews… if it weren’t for those darned quotas they used to have, Harvard would probably be 80% jewish by now.</p>
<p>I think asians have got the jews beat</p>
<p>Imagine if you breed Jews, Asians, and Indians together. You’ll get a super study machine known as Jasindian. And to prevent failed genetic mutation, any baby who fails to pass the SAT by 2200s, will be thrown down a pit known as the “A-.”</p>
<p>And they can be bankers, doctors and engineers, all simultaneously.</p>
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<p>My parents are Chinese and grew up during the Cultural Revolution, so they were poor. Working hard academically is a huge cultural thing. My dad and his side of the family were all straight A students in Shanghai, and even that wasn’t enough seeing how they were all thrown in the farms for almost almost a decade.</p>
<p>As far as my education goes, i was a really good student up until HS. I now attend a 3rd tier university, and i wouldn’t call myself an over achiever at all. My little bro on the other hand was a slacker up until his Jr year of HS where he all of a sudden decided to start getting near straight A’s. He is now applying to 2nd tier and nationally recognized universities. Just making a point on generalization and how two people with the exact same background can be completely in completely different situations.</p>
<p>^Indians are actually a mixture of caucasian. Take a look at some Asians people from China, Korea, and Japan for example, and you’ll see they share some characteristics that make distinctive (look wise). And then compare them with Indians, and you’ll see some differences.</p>
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plus, i think there are less asians than jews in the US. i mite be wrong.</p>
<p>I think it depends on how meritocratic the society/culture is. Also, the income inequality.</p>
<p>In Canada, people don’t freak out that much. Even less so in Europe. Why? Socialism. Most of my Canadian friends have never heard of I-banking. They don’t care much about career success. Why? Because everyone ends up middle class, anyways. Same in Europe.</p>
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<p>They are considered Asians. I didn’t know this until Indians argued with me that they are Asians lol. The word that describes someone from China, Viet, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Laos, Cambo, Burma, etc is Oriental.</p>
<p>Same old story. Parents escaped Vietnam War by the skin of their teeth, came here dirt poor. When my parents got here, believe it or not, one of the ways to make money on the side was to go hunting for worms so they could sell them as live bait - they’d go out with their friends every couple of nights to do this.</p>
<p>People who grew up in my neighbourhood, which was mostly made up of poor immigrants from similiar situations as my parents did not have many ways to escape it. You’d either have to be an awesome athlete, have some artistic talent, get involved in crime or work your butt off in school.</p>
<p>yeah, but there has to be another variable other than coming from poverty. Black people are poor (in general), and in general (and yes there are exceptions, please don’t ban me for not being PC) black kids do not work hard in school. In fact, a majority of black males drop out of high school.</p>
<p>There are tons of more variables. In discussions like these, you’ll always have one person blame it all on the poor for lack of motivation and one blame it on the system for whatever reason. And of course, it always boils back down to black vs white, even though where I am from (Toronto) the dropout rate of poor immigrants is just about in line with that of blacks (35 vs 40%). I got no wide sociological background myself, I just think it is what it is.</p>
<p>I was just lucky to have two really motivated parents. My mom had a background in higher education back in her country so she knew what she was doing raising me and my dad was a poor farmer from the north who was motivated to succeed because he had a seething hatred for America, nothing motivates better than revenge and there’s no better revenge than living well right?</p>
<p>OP - I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m an Asian and I hate school more than most other things in this world.</p>
<p>^^^ and you’re posting on a college forum…</p>
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<p>But this discussion is in the context of race w/ regard to college admissions. SE Asians (w/ the exception of most Viets) have a distinct phenotype from NE Asians as well.</p>
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<p>Uhh, there are almost 4x as many Asians as Jews in the US (and for college-age that number goes to 5x).</p>
<p>Once again - this largely has to do w/ immigration status. </p>
<p>Studies have shown that Asian-Americans who are 3rd gen or more don’t really do any better than their non-Asian peers (plus, there are plenty of Asians who don’t see education as a way out - hence, Asian gangs, etc.).</p>
<p>It’s the same reason why many black immigrant students work so hard at school (and even then - they don’t work as hard as the students back in their original homeland - for example, there are stories of Nigerian parents sending their kids back to Nigeria for a year of schooling to keep in touch w/ their roots and the kids [end up complaining about how much more competitive it is over there).</p>