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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in SF. When I go to the main library in the children's section here's what I see:

white parent: sitting somewhere, texting or reading a magazine while their toddler runs around the children's area playing with the toys

asian parent: sitting at a kiddie table next to their toddler practicing puzzles over and over again

I'm white. The first time I saw it, I did a double-take. [/quote]

From observing two parents, you extrapolate out and ascribe those traits to millions of parents?  Wow.[/quote]

From observing two TYPES of parents, and you can lump the white parents with the black and latino ones too.  It's only the Asian (mostly Chinese but also some Korean) parents who have their little kids working over and over and [b]encouraging t[/b]hem to work hard this way. [/quote]

There's a fine line between "encouraging" and "pushing." The first is helpful to psychological growth and the second is detrimental. I'm not saying that all parents of any race are more one than the other.[/quote]

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