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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school is majority Asian - and most of that is South Asian.  At the risk of being flamed - I would say that the South Asian kids do tend to stick together and aren't as inclusive as I would have hoped.  That is not to say that my child (SE Asian by the way) does not interact with them at school - just that [b]there is no social interaction outside of school.[/b]  [/quote]

not all? hard to believe. what about soccer or baseball teams? or birthday parties?[/quote]

I can believe it, sadly, although every family is different.  I am white and when my brother was little he was friends with a Korean boy up the street.  Around age 6, the Korean boy's parents told my parents that their son couldn't be friends with my brother anymore because their son would be "studying a lot."  
It was kind of sad because they liked each other, and honestly short sighted of the parents.  My brother is a major computer whiz, was a good student and is now a multimillionaire Silicon Valley exec.  How bad of an influence could he have been?
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This is sad. I'm Korean and have worked in SV.  But my kids play with all kinds of kids.  We live in a very diverse area.

I think the other PP got it right.  Typically, recent immigrants only want their kids to hang out with kids from similar backgrounds. But this is probably true for a lot of recent immigrant groups. For the most part, Asians that are not recent immigrants assimilate more, including the social circle they have.  So, it may depend on how recently a lot of the Asians in your community have immigrated. Not sure how you can tell.

However, the tiger moms do tend to not want their kids to befriend non-high achievers, so if your kid is not a high achiever, and the Asian moms are tiger moms, then more than likely the other kids won't be allowed to socialize with your kid anyway regardless of your race.[/quote]

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