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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That "lagging Asian countries" red flag has been waving for 30 years, meanwhile the US consistently has the most steady economy, has the highest advances in science and technology.

It's a drum beat scare tactic that is not true.

I've been in high tech development for 40 years and have also taught at engineering universities, you do get a wave like the outsourcing to India or even Japan, but it always comes back.  I have been around many Asian students, and they do well because they cluster up, study constantly and are very exclusionary.  Part of the problem was the language barrier, part of it was they just don't like Americans very much.

Guess what, they don't get the high paying jobs.  They have no creativity, they are afraid of any original ideas and rarely become lead designers or architects.

[b]First generation Asian-Americans assimilate very quickly and are just like their American counterparts[/b].

The math in MCPS is ridiculous, we don't need some nebulous Asian standard, we set the standard and need to work on doing better than we did yesterday, not sliding back whole grade levels in instruction.[/quote]

Great post.  Asians are amazing in school, but I see the same in the workforce. [/quote]

If you give it another 50 yrs, you'll see more Asians in those types of jobs.[/quote]

First gen Asian-Americans have been given the leg up by their parents. They are a testament to their parents hard work. Sure it seems that they are more assimilated because their accent is americanized and they outwardly have a more westernized appearance - but their brilliance at their work has come about from their parents sacrifice.  And most have also got financial help from their parents = so the wealth has been accumulated.

As more Asian-Americans are given the opportunities, they are opening the doors for others that come after them.  [/quote]

I'm the PP that made the "in 50 yrs comment".  I don't think the future generation Asian American success in those types of jobs can only be attributed to the parents' sacrifices.  It is more cultural. By and large, in the Asian culture, you don't question authority.  That means you don't question the professors, the leaders of the company or your superiors.  This is the reason why most Asians don't do well in those types of jobs. You see more Asian Americans be more successful in those types of jobs because they grew up with the some of the American attitudes of being open and questioning authority.

They suspect that it was this Asian type of culture that caused the Asiana crash in SF, which was a Korean airline.  They suspect that the copilot new something was wrong but didn't want to question the pilot who was his superior.

But, I think even those Asian countries are starting to change their culture, ever so slowly.  So, who knows.[/quote]

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