Tiger moms.
Discounting certain demographics here in the USA, it’s Cuz that’s the sum total of their repertoire.
The answer I’ve received from several Asian-Americans who I’ve asked about this is that their parents would beat them if they didn’t excel.
So, why are they communist?
In other words, racism. (/sarc)
I never see the Asian kids goofing off... NEVER!
They are not in any squishy courses, either... they are in the most challenging and rigorous disciplines... and they work their a*#es off.
They are from a culture (like our parents and grandparents) where calling a person a student or saying that a person is educated, is the highest compliment you can pay him/her.
There's a stigma to being uneducated and absolutely nothing trumps academic achievement.
No xBox, no iPod; no Farcebook; no endless, useless tv; no cheerleading; very little if any organized sports and only after academics; parents who care; no ADD meds, ... et, al.
The hell you say? But what make them, as in Asians, 'work harder'?
Asian families value education and instill that value in their kids. Contrast that to the African American community where education is often deemed as “acting white”, honor students are bullied and the pervasive “gangsta rap”/ebonics culture assures failure.
i did a wedding video a couple years back for a Vietnamese couple, he was a big wig at the Toyota plant and she just got her doctorate on pharmacy. during the ceremony they lauded the bride saying, nine years ago you got off the boat and couldnt speak a lick of english and here you are today with your doctorate. wonderful, respectful couple that appreciated my work, paid me in full without asking for discounts and said thank you profusely. i compare them to the few African American gigs i shot where the couple and guests were rude, disrespectful and ordered me around like their slave.
And lest anyone think that innate racial abilities are a factor here, notice that immigrant black families from Africa do extremely well. We have several in our community. It’s expected that the kids WILL get a PhD. Like Asians, Africans are not afraid to beat their kids. And they do. And it works.
Pretty much anyone that works harder at something, will excel at that particular thing.
Are they Asias or are they Americans?
Choose.......
Will whites be offended by this? Probably not. There’s a lot of truth to it.
Now, substitute “asians” in this article with “whites” and substitute “whites” in this article with “blacks”.
Would blacks be offended? Count on it.
“Why do Asian Americans, as a group, tend to excel at academics? Newly published research arrives at a simple answer: They work harder than their non-Asian peers.”
No sh/t
-PJ
Any teacher could have told them this. The Chinese students study, many American students never even read their textbooks. Too busy playing games and partying and taking drugs and boozing. Cultural differences, to be sure, @cultural differences” is a very nice tactful way of putting it.
Obviously because the white man is keeping his hobnailed boots on the necks of the africanAmericans/blacks/coloreds/negroes/former slaves to put them in their place. Of course it’s only conservative white people doing it.