18. No wonder Asian American parents are so obsessed with education! Have you ever wondered why that's an Asian stereotype?
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19. (And before you say "Confucian values"—that was mostly a public relations story championed by certain Chinatown leaders way back when.)
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20. Asian American parents are obsessed with education in part because they see it as a protective shield in a racist society.
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Johari Abdul-Malik Retweeted Jeff Guo
So therefore black Americans do not care about education as much?https://twitter.com/_jeffguo/status/853327403753644042 …
Johari Abdul-Malik added,
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no, but Asian American families often have the resources to make their educational dreams happen
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may Asian-American families were very poor, yet their children still achieve in school. That is a good thing. I think we can learn from this
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Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax County is ~70% Asian-American
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My larger point is that I wish that we, as a society, would quit pretending that strong family values are not important in achievement
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Education is also very important in Asian nations and they emigrate with those same values
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So you're implying that black Americans don't have "strong family values"
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