Asians are good at maths,WHY?

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<p>What's your opinion?</p>

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<p>wow another thread inviting useless debate. aren't there enough of these already? anyways I'm asian and I'm horrible.</p>

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<p>LOL, you said "maths'. i've only ever heard Indian people say that in my life.</p>

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<p>Exactly dude...</p>

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<p>we invented the abacus... duh.</p>

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<p>did we... I thought the romans did, we invented the zero.</p>

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<p>They argent smarter than anybody else. Just like nobody else is smarter than another person.</p>

<p>The way one gets smarter or excels is to have early experience with the different subjects when the brain absorbs the most.</p>

<p>if you learn alot of math at a young age you will be better at math,</p>

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<p>They're smarter than everyone else and have superior genes. We should be like Hitler and kill everyone who's not a first-generation Asian immigrant. We all know that Asians are really descended from an alien species of superior intelligence, and all normal humans deserve to be burnt at the stake.</p>

<p>SIEG HEIL!!!!! :D</p>

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<p>Because first-generation Asian parents ain't gonna help you with your English HW...</p>

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<p>Ha ha ha ha, mine did.</p>

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<p>Ha ha ha ha, mine didn't.</p>

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<p>I'm sorry.</p>

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<p>One time I tried to ask my dad a question about English grammar... omg... he went on this dinosaur tangent... was so weird...</p>

<p>o.o</p>

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<p>what........</p>

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<p>I'm Asian but I am not good at math.</p>

<p>It's myth,not fact.</p>

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<p>I think that if you pull a random Asian-American and a random non-Asian American, the Asian-American is more likely to be better at math (this applies especially to lower-level math where parental pressures still apply).</p>

<p>However, when you get up to higher maths, non-Asians and Asians will usually perform about equally.</p>

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<p>It's probably more of the drive or pressure to master the subject than who's naturally smarter.</p>

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<p>Its because we Asians are actually Transformers. Need I say more?</p>

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<p>to compensate for their short.....</p>

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<p>leashes? Yeah a lot of asian parents pressure their kids, always keeping a close eye on them, but I don't understand how asians would compensate by being good at math. Wouldn't they just be accepting what their parents wanted them to?</p>

<p>I think the main reason is how the kids grew up. I know my parents always drilled me in math early on. I learned my multiplication tables before I knew how to read. Its because its more difficult for asian parents to teach critical reading, ergo more emphasis on math.</p>