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Is there any proof that Asians actually work harder than other races? They are more resourced than most races for sure.[/quote]

And why are they more resourced?  It is not as if they have benefited from being under colonial rule, is it? It is not as if they get benefit of affirmative action.  Well, it has to do with their family structure and the love that their parents have for them.  The family prioritizes education and will sacrifice for the education of their children. It is hard for everyone in the family but they endure.  Copy that in your own family and you will be successful too.  Need to learn to sacrifice for the education of your children.

The proof that they work harder than any other race in education?  The proof my dear is in the pudding. Have you heard of the achievement gap? Or do you think that they are intellectually superior to other races? 
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No, the proof is in the fact that Asian immigrants [i]are[/i] privileged.  Because of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, highly educated and skilled Asians jump to the front of the line.  How else do you explain that 51% of Chinese immigrants come to the United States with an undergraduate degree?  Only four percent of people in China are similarly educated.  Twenty-six percent of Vietnamese immigrants have a bachelor's degree; only five percent of those back home do.  Only 36% of South Koreans have a college education; 56% of Korean immigrants do.  Honestly, is it any surprise that educated people would have educated children?

And despite landing on third base in their native country, obviously they don't think hard work and love of scholarship would carry them to home plate.  They came to the United States for that:

[i]Like immigrants overall, a majority of Asian immigrants cite better opportunities and a better future for their children as reasons for moving to the U.S., with high shares of immigrants from East and Southeast Asia also citing having more rights or freedoms as a reason. Among Asian immigrants, at least three in four say better economic and job opportunities (86%), educational opportunities (79%), and a better future for their children (75%) are a reason they moved to the U.S. Smaller shares say they came to the U.S. to have more rights or freedoms (66%), to join or accompany family members (51%), or to escape violent or unsafe conditions (34%).[/i]

So, please stop with the model minority myth that centers East Asian Confucian emphasis on education as what differentiates Asian immigrants from people whose ancestors came here on slave ships -- especially because those people fought for increased immigration during the Civil Rights Movement.

[url]https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/understanding-the-diversity-in-the-asian-immigrant-experience/[/url]
[url]https://items.ssrc.org/from-our-programs/it-takes-more-than-grit-reframing-asian-american-academic-achievement/[/url][/quote]

What you said is only partially true, emphasis on education is in east Asia culture, more people come over to U.S with higher education background it's because of competition. Plenty of first generation Asian kids get into elite colleges because they less-educated parents emphasize education too.[/quote]

What they were saying is mostly untrue.

They cherry-pick data and cite easily debunked articles.

For example, one of the articles make a point of the lack of success of chinese in spain and koreans in japan while ignoring almost every other country in the world where chinese and koreans are outperforming the native population academically.  For koreans, japan might be the only country where we see what the author of the article tries to portray as a common occurrence.

The fact of the matter is that some asian groups spend more time studying and consequently have better academic results.[/quote]

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