Asia has a culture of celebrating (and desiring) academic achievement far more than Western culture does. In the West, schools gets blamed for poor results. In

Asia has a culture of celebrating (and desiring) academic achievement far more than Western culture does. In the West, schools gets blamed for poor results. In the East, poor results are treated as far more of a reflection on the family and on the parents. Statements like "I am not very good at maths" seem to be culturally acceptable in the West, whereas you might as well be saying "I have an STD" in the East. Source: I went to school in England, in the US and in India and so have seen these differences first hand.