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To: Fee
Go to any big Chinese restaurant in the US, you know, the huge, red-carpeted, palatial dining rooms with many tables that sit 10 or 12 people each, for dim sum/yamcha, and just eat (of course) and then watch the family activity of the neighboring Chinese (ma, pa, little sister, big brother, Uncle Jiang, grandma, grandpa, Aunt Liang, etc) and savor the POWER of the CHINESE FAMILY.

Go to any restaurant the next day, MacDonalds, wherever, and watch the typical American white or black family in contrast. Sad.

I know it is an over generalization, but there is a lot of truth in this thread.

12 posted on 07/08/2004 6:28:22 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (***Since The Iraq War & Transition Period Began, NORTH KOREA HAS MANUFACTURED (8) NUCLEAR WEAPONS***)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Exactly right. I might get flamed for this but immigrants aren't the threat to American values that some people think they are. Their families stay much closer together and they attend church much more regularly. Not too many of their kids are in those Gone Wild videos either. Their kids learn English even if the parents have trouble with it.

When I was in high school black kids and some Hispanic kids in the US have a lot of peer pressure NOT to succeed in school because it is seen as selling out. Contrast that to Asian kids where most will ostracize you as an idiot if you get any C's. Asian kids in the US are also much better about participating and taking an active part in their education than their counterparts in Asia. Kids in Asia are too obiedient and excel mostly in rote learning. They're too much into conforming with the group and take no initiative. Me and my 3 brothers were valedictorians of our respective high school graduating classes. My sister was the black sheep and only salutatorian.

When I was in China I sometimes heard ABC used as American Born in China and it wasn't complimentary. It was used describe hot shot returnees who were too anglo. In the US it does stand for American Born Chinese and it also can be derogatory. I've mostly heard it used to describe kids who could no longer speak Chinese.


19 posted on 07/08/2004 2:50:07 PM PDT by pragmatic_asian
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