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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1298933)4/30/2021 5:49:38 PM
From: Tenchusatsu2 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 1583338
 
Shep,
Here's something I've always wondered ......clearly the Asian kids that are here and/or born to immigrants that are here do better in the admission tests..... Is the answer to this question the fact that the immigrants are more capable than those they left behind and hence are producing offspring that do better scholastically than average native American kids..?... ie would the Asian kids back home do as well on our elite HS tests as the Asian diaspora here...??? It takes a special kind of person to leave his homeland and emigrate elsewhere.....
You wouldn't be the first to wonder whether Asian immigrants to America represent the cream of the crop compared to other Asians who didn't leave Asia.

And yeah, there is some truth to that hypothesis.

But for the most part, the Asian students who make it into NYC's elite schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science live in households that make less than the median income for New York residents. Indeed, most Asian households living in majority-Asian neighborhoods in NYC make less than $52,000/year. That even lower than Black households in majority-Black neighborhoods (though not much lower).

The lower income could partly be explained by immigrants starting over from the bottom rung compared to their societal position back in their old countries. But for them to climb (back) up the socio-economic ladder says a lot about culture and yes, even genetics.

It also destroys the whole "systemic racism" myth because the "system" that supposedly kept Blacks and Latinos down did a terrible job keeping Asians down.

Tenchusatsu
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