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It could also be a selection thing though, you'd have to compare "typical American students in a typical American school environment" to "typical Chinese studen
by HPsquared 3y ago
It could also be a selection thing though, you'd have to compare "typical American students in a typical American school environment" to "typical Chinese students in a typical Chinese school environment".
Still probably quite different, but maybe more similar than looking at Chinese emigrés vs typical "US average".
- alephnerd 3y agoI'd second OP's opinion as a 1.5 Gen. Immigrant parents (Asian, Latino, Eastern European, African) in America will push their kids harder because when you're an immigrant, a mistake like getting suspended in school or a DUI can destroy any chance at naturalization because you need to establish "Good Moral Character" [0] which is largely at the discretion of the presiding interviewer and a backlogged USCIS Immigration Judge [0] - https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-d-chapter-9 https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-d-chapter...
- waveBidder 3y agothe original article is talking about native Chinese in China, though the fact that they're attending a school with an english teacher from America is also a strong filter
- alephnerd 3y agoI'm talking about lr4444lr's comment
- watwut 3y agoThe article characterizes them as elite students, so you then need to compare them to elite American students. Elite as in highly performing in school and motivated.
- em500 3y agoTrue, the author is teaching at an elite Beijing high school. But elite American high schools are usually disproportionally populated with Asian (an very often Chinese) students.