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But immigrants who have come to America are not always representative of their home countries — it’s why some countries call the phenomenon of people leaving their country a “brain drain.”  Highly educated and/or motivated people tend to take the risk of leaving their home country for America.  So the people you have here might be of higher education level and/or motivation than your average person of that culture.[/quote]

I agree with the immigrant effect.

However, even setting this aside, different cultures around the world value education in vastly different ways, and these values affect the hours children spend on schoolwork and the expectations families have of them.[/quote]

This explains, though, why South Asians are overrepresented in AAP and TJ.  The South Asians in the DC area are not even remotely representative of South Asians as a whole.

On that note, the educational values thing is a big deal here.  There are huge cultural differences as to whether TJ would even be desirable and just how much pressure to put on kids.  I'm pretty typical for a white person in this respect, but I wouldn't want my kids to go to TJ unless they were above and beyond and would easily be in the top half of their class there.  Otherwise, it would be too much homework and too much stress for no real gain.  Many Asian families feel very differently than I do, which is why despite economic similarities, there are proportionally so many more Asian kids than white kids in AAP and TJ.    [/quote]

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