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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Calm down. No secret. Hard work. Intact family. Hard work. Educated parents. Hard work.

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Lots of Western families esp in this area that work hard, have a traditional nuclear family, and are well educated -- [b]but by and large you don't see them dominating academic contests and college admissions across the board -- so there's obviously something else there.[/b] I think it's just a culture of hard work, competition, and expectation within the whole community. When there is CONSTANT talk at every family party about how so-and-so just graduated Harvard Med and got a residency at Stanford and that's the best thing ever, and the kids hear that talk since birth -- it lights a bit of a fire as those kids start to think, that's what I want too.

I know in many Indian households it is common to make an "example" out of an older cousin or friend -- i.e. your cousin x was getting certain grades/scores/awards, that's what got him into MIT, just getting by with straight As won't be enough for MIT.[/quote]

i don't think there's anything else there.  What about the Western families whose kids are dominating in sports?  You think that's not the result of hard work, competition, and expectation within the whole community?  You don't think that Western families are talking about how cousin Johnny earned a football scholarship, and that's the best thing ever, and kids hear that talk since birth, and think, that's what I want too?

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It was established a few pages ago that what Indians are doing for academics, white and black families are doing for sports scholarships -- hard work, lots of time, energy and money on camps and being seen by the right coaches; and stories and expectations that live on forever by the older ones who were recruited, went pro etc.[/quote]

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