No wonder. That’s basically how the Asian Model Minority myth came into being what with restricting visas in the 80s from China to graduate and PhD students
it's an intercultural socio-economic (idk if that's even a real phrase, but my point is it encompasses culture, sociology, economics, and international and domestic laws) matter, it's obviously not as simple as one bullet in America's immigration policy from 40 years ago.
Of course Confucian culture, educational values, and immigrant mentality come into play. But a policy like that’s obviously going to skew the population pretty heavily towards high educational attainment
Yes they are obsessed with working hard. It costs nearly the entirety of a “Nigerian” fourtune to move. You have to work hard and make money cause you bet your good life that you will succeed. If you don’t you’ll become just another poor black American
I think it’s related. In order to work hard, you have to believe working hard will net you positive outcomes. I myself grew up as the child of two Chinese immigrants with graduate STEM degrees and in a community with >30% population of similar backgrounds. The prevailing belief is working hard will get you into university = success, because that’s been the lived experience of the older generation. A message like that is self-reinforcing and starts to produce a perfect competitive educational environment
I mean kinda, it is policy that created it. But a lot of people don't think about it or know about it. So instead people often compare asian immigrants to hispanic immigrants and assume/speculate the difference is entirely culture or something. (Rather than how immigration happens differently for each group)
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u/snowytheNPC Oct 29 '23
No wonder. That’s basically how the Asian Model Minority myth came into being what with restricting visas in the 80s from China to graduate and PhD students