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[quote=Anonymous]I truly don’t understand the shock of this study. I am Indian (born here, though.) Asians generally hold education in highest importance. Since I was a kid, I HAD to get the best grades. My brother was told he HAD to be a doctor since he was like 6 (became  a PhD, not a medical doc to my dad’s dismay lol…) I am most impressed when my Vietnamese nail ladies raising kids as single moms (with a family support system maybe) have their kids in Georgetown, Mason, etc studying engineering, law etc. despite their own hardships. So it’s not even about income. It’s about it being a very high priority from the get go.

This is also why it’s much harder to get into AAP at elementary schools that are heavily Asian dominated. We DO encourage our kids more on math, science, and school overall than other ethnic groups. We DO have higher test scores and grades, because we do teach our kids a lot from early on. White people and several other groups hold sports in a much highest regard than Asians do.

There is nothing offensive or shocking here. The stereotypes are kind of true. I live it. But on the other hand, because I was born here, I like my child to be well rounded and not ONLY education focused. He doesn’t need to do 9th grade math in 5th grade but Advanced math or AAP is great…[/quote]

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