[Racehorse]

I'll be a bit crass here; little Buffy Muffy and Todd from the burbs want to study drama or expressive this that or the other when they go to college while the Wangs, the Changs and the Lees will do the science and math courses and become doctors and scientists.

Better than crass . . . provocative.

Wish I had seen the WSJ article.  I'd like to know which Asian group they wrote about.

Do all Asians on average perform better in school than Anglos, Latinos and Blacks?  Do the Hmong, the Vietnamese, the Thais, the Japanese, the Koreans perform on par with the Wangs, Changs and Lees?

[brooklyn dave]

Racehorse,
I think there are differences. The real hard core are the Chinese and Koreans. Most Japanese (esp on west coast) have been in US for a few generations, so I suspect their attitudes are fairly similar to whites. The Hmong were pretty much brought into the 20th century when they left the hills of Laos--poor folks are still suffering from culture shock, let alone trying to be a summa cum laude college graduate. Vietnamese, I don't know---what was their class background in Vietnam---that I believe colors how this group approaches this subject.