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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]DCUM is so great for sweeping generalizations!

Everyone thinks that an Indian kid who is a high achiever is not being socialized.

My experience has been that our high performing Indian kids have grown up with tons of socializing , attending and throwing all types of parties and learning the rules of hospitality at home.

They have been born into a community of family and friends and social behavior and conduct is instilled in them from birth. I find it is the Americans who are not socialized properly nor do they have the a sense of hospitality in them.

I have gone to Italian, Greek, Latin, African, Asian, Middle Eastern families and each one of them know how to be welcoming and hospitable. Their children know how to greet and address the guests. They know how to share their toys, they know how to include everyone!

I have yet to see a shining example of "American socialization" that I would want to have my kids emulate.
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The irony in this post is astounding. "Everyone" does not think that a high achieving Indian child is not being socialized. You have made a huge generalization from a random, rude comment. Saying that Americans are not socialized properly or do not have a sense of hospitality is also a huge generalization about Americans.

The truth is that someone can disagree with your views on tutoring and the HGC program AND still be a good person.

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You are reacting because I have made a generalization about Americans (Whites mainly) in the same way generalizations are made about Asians. I don't see you make a counter argument when a rude comment is made against Asians, but LOVE the way that you are suddenly thin skinned when I make the same comments about Whites.

This is a free country. No Asian parent is telling ANYONE that their kids need to get tutored or apply to magnet schools/HGC or not do whatever they are doing in their lives.  In fact, as far as I am concerned it means less competition for my own kid if others do not focus on academics.  BUT - every Tom, Dick and Harry has an opinion about what is happening in an Asian kid's life.  If Asian kids are not mingling with your kids and are always studying...how do you know if they are happy or unhappy? And if they are unhappy then why is it concerning you? You should be glad that your kids are enjoying life unlike the Asian kids!

The comments that high achieving Asian kids are awkward and not socialized is ironic because according to DCUM there is no social group that socializes without awkwardness with Whites!

In this forum I have read the White posters lament that for some "strange" reason AA self-segregate;  White women have asked if high achieving Asian women are the new "trophy wives" for White men; I have seen disparaging comments when any inner-city AA youth gets into Ivies.

Asian achievement is view with extreme prejudice.  According to most "White DCUM poster" - our (Asian) children are "dead eyed" kids, who are awkward, and bullied into getting tutored and working hard by their parents, they are one-dimensional and have nothing to offer.   If that is the case then all the magnet schools and top universities that pride in picking up [b]well-rounded and high achieving students[/b] would not touch Asian students with a barge pole.

Interestingly, the criticism against the low achieving  students (mainly Latinos and AA) in MCPS is that  they are NOT like the Asians. They are a "dead weight" whose parents are treating MCPS schools as a free "baby sitting" service. They are not interested in studying. They are poor, can't speak English and need to have their meals subsidized in the schools. Oh, and most of them are illegals.

Wow! Can any group come out in the top?

So - yeah...proud to be a Tiger mom and capable of defending my own too!  I am proud of all the achievements of the Asian students!  So - Bite me!

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