Alpanaji,
I did mention that Asian students are doing as well as white American students -in general. But I'm sure there are poor Asian families -such as Hemong refugees from Cambodia - who have not had access to a culture of technological excellence. It does apply to them -and also to those Assamese who may land up here - thanks to help from their brethren - and need support.
I was also alluding to the slowdown in Japan, where the "fire" in the people seems to have gone -as their will to compete and win against western economies -seems to have gone -having accepted the western system and being content to have graduated from Harvard or Oxford or Stanford -and content to remain in US . My contacts here with most Japanese has not changed my mind about this.
Umesh
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Alpanaji wrote:
Umesh-ji: Correct me if I am wrong in understanding you, but this is what I felt I needed to say:
We may belong to an ethnic or religious minorities, but are definitely not racial or disadvantaged persons. Our children always have had access to all the resources that the other American children have. They excel not because they are from a "poor" or "disadvantaged" group, but because their families do not like to accept anything less than the best and thus always thrive to excel. Mind you, there are exceptions.
And yes, FYI, thanksgiving is an accepted 'festival' in the US and we do celebrate it in one way or the other, and debating on how it started does not mean this :
"> The students of this study have chosen not to conform and assimilate into these systems in order to succeed, but instead to strategically resist these systems through both overt and covert oppositional behaviours." (Dr Latty Lee Goodwin,2002 -book: Resilient Spirits - Disadvantaged Students Making it at an Elite University - Publisher: Routledge Falmer, USA; page 1)".
Especially our children are neither disadvantaged nor did they "HAVE CHOSEN not to confirm and assimiliate into these systems in order to succeed". And they are very much assimilitated with the society (in fact, that is the only society taht they know) still have succeeded and always will. I'm not quite sure if this study would quite fit into our group.
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