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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The scare in the non-Asians is so palpable it is manifesting in the form of denigrating the Asians.  If you can't take the heat now just wait and see how hot t gets when your children get to be of your present age and the world they will live in then will be so different from the world you are currently living in.  Just think about how the world has changed since your parents were of your current age to the present time.  The rate of change going forward will be exponential due to technological advances and increased globalization.  If you want to bring up your children to give them the best skills to succeed in their lives, have them love and pursue with passion acquiring knowledge, developing skills and self-learning.  Bashing Asians may sooth your anxieties but it will only be temporary.[/quote]

Asians don't have the best skills. They simply have a cultural norm of slavish studying.

The people who really succeed in this world aren't the ones with the best test scores. Instead they are the creative thinkers. .[/quote]

Tiger Mom missed the memo on this fact.  An education is no guarantee of success in the real world, creativity and soft (people) skills are hugely important, but those are not things you learn in a book.[/quote]

Ill +1 this emphatically. I am white and have 2 Ivy league degrees. I have had some career success, but have met people over and over again who come from a range of college (state schools, small SLACs but not elite east coast ones) who have people skills, good work ethic, get lucky, who are career superstars; for a variety of reasons they have far outstripped me and my accomplishments.  Book smarts and tests scores is not enough in the real world.

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