<p>I know that even up to the early 90s, Asians were probably taken as a joke in American society. But nowadays, you see Asians dominating the best colleges, businesses, tech firms, medical schools, etc while they only comprise about 5% of America.</p>
<p>A lot of people (usually white) are beginning to express genuine concerns about the work ethic of Asians (in my observation through CC and other forums). Obviously, they portray this in a negative light by saying "why is it that all you Asians ever care about is math and nothing else?" But this shows that people in general are starting to see the trend that in the realm of hard-work, education, and salary, Asians can be considered, in certain aspects, to be on par with white society.</p>
<p>Asian Americans, although minority in numbers, are becoming more powerful than ever in the economic/social realm. </p>
<p>What are your thoughts, are Asian Americans beginning to make a gradual change in significance in our society?
What are some barriers to this change?</p>
<p>Haven’t people been saying the same about American Jews for years? I seriously doubt that any one group is going to change the culture that significantly.</p>
<p>Most definitely. for the past two or three hundred years the west has dominated the world doing whatever they want, whenever they want. Now, the asians are starting to raise up, and westerners fear they might become powerful again, like China in the han dynasty.</p>
<p>It’s just a general idea that seems to be prevalent in Asian education.</p>
<p>A lot of those countries are extremely focused on education, and achieving educational goals, that memorization becomes more important than application and learning. You can’t learn how to paint, draw, etc. from studying or reading a book for hours on end.</p>
<p>You can really see this manifest itself in Asian math scores. It’s a very logical and mathematical based culture.</p>
<p>Here’s one topic that came up with a Google search of “Do asians lack creativity” (which was a frequently searched topic.)</p>
<p>Also, one post in there seemed to make some sense; it basically said that the longer an (asian) family has been in America, the more laid back they typically are. So it might be that recent Asian immigrants / their children are more academically focused, and Asian American families who have been here for awhile assimilate more. It’s mostly a cultural thing.</p>
<p>I think the general point is that different cultures tend to be stronger at different things. Whether one is better than the other really depends on perspective, and again isn’t true for every person.</p>
<p>I think education in asian is much to the contrary, although that’s what people have always told me.</p>
<p>For example, if you give the AMC to a chinese school in china, they’d most likely score a much much much higher average than one here. Why? Because people here don’t know how to apply the principles they’ve learned in school. all they can do is memorize what the teacher said, and plug things in a calculator.</p>
<p>pandem, logic and creativity are not mutually exclusive. I haven’t seen any significant evidence suggesting that Asians lacked creativity compared to whites.</p>
<p>pandem, it takes creativity to solve an intricate math or physics problem. should someone tell albert einstein that he wasn’t creative because math and logical thinking was his strength?</p>
<p>I don’t know why you’re attacking me, I’m just regurgitating the general consensus (even stereotype, if you will). The fact that “asians lack creativity” is a suggested Google term speaks enough for itself.</p>
<p>no one’s attacking you here. it’s just the claim you made.
just give CC users a definition of “creativity” and things might become more debatable</p>
<p>lol “world is the center of the universe” is also a suggested google term.</p>
<p>I’m not Asian-centric, I’m just demonstrating the same flaw that you continue to exhibit without you having yet demonstrated any realization that you continue to exhibit this flaw.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, what ethnicity are you? I’m not going to be throwing out insults or stereotype claims against your race; I’m just doing an objective experiment like I often do.</p>
<p>I’m white, family is from Northeastern Europe.</p>
<p>This topic has been discussed to death. Google it. Why don’t you see more Asian writers, filmmakers, and (non classical) musicians? Again, because certain cultures (read: not races. Races don’t exist) are better at different things. This doesn’t mean that every Black guy is filled with soul and every Asian is a math-head, but there are cultural traits that differentiate us.</p>
<p>If you want a real life example, compare the RPG video games from the West and from countries like Korea and Japan. Western games are almost always more open-ended and offer more freedom and customization, while Eastern games are typically rigid in their construction and focus more on a systematic and overarching storyline. Which is better, again depends on personal preference.</p>
lol pandem, you’ve used words with negative connotations to describe asian games, whereas you’ve used words with positive connotations to describe western games.</p>
<p>this clearly suggests, the difference is only within your mind</p>
<p>Eastern RPGS
“Character races tend to be limited to humans”</p>
<p>“An Eastern RPG’s plot is usually crafted in an intricate fashion into a highly dramatic, strictly directed and linear construct, relying on the viewer to experience most of its twists and turns at predetermined specific times”</p>
<p>Few games in the genre offer branching plots,</p>
<p>Western RPGs are often based more on consequential choices than their Eastern RPG counterparts</p>
<p>From the link I previously posted.</p>
<p>I’m not going to lie, I prefer western RPGs over eastern. Big surprise, considering that I’m…drumroll… from a western culture. Again, it’s a difference of culture. Western culture is more focused on choice and freedom, while eastern tends to lean towards logic and order. (Painting a broad brush)Research religions and you’ll understand why.</p>
lol, i would argue that eastern religions (buddhism, taoism, any variation of buddhism across asia, etc) tend to be more laid back and accepting, than western religions (christianity as a big example, not tolerant of other religions). but again, just like you did, im painting a broad brush</p>