<p>That is, the Chinese living in China going to a Chinese high school. I am racially Chinese.</p>
<p>What should I self study to get myself back on track?</p>
<p>You should study Chinese.</p>
<p>You should get the hell out of my country if you want to be a communist sheep who uses an alphabet with 343053408545849 characters. You wanna catch up? Start swimming.</p>
<p>Build a time machine and grow up in China.
Other than that its kind of too late for you bro.</p>
<p>You should PM me. I’ll tell you what’s wrong with Chinese students. I don’t wanna start a debate about this on these forums.</p>
<p>take the AP chinese exam for starters lol</p>
<p>you do realize that all asians living in asian countries would die to be in america having even the slightest morsel of fun that they could never imagine in their entire lives leading up to that very moment?</p>
<p>as a poster said before, there are things wrong with chinese students (or just east asian students at that) that you should not be envious of. a lot of kids here wish we hadn’t wasted our lives studying/procrastinating extremely lamely and not having fun.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with Chinese (East Asian) students? I’ve heard Chinese students living in China perform worse than Chinese-American students.</p>
<p>Redemption-- Can you start the debate please? 
because I have a Chinese calc teacher who yells at us everyday for not bring like the children in her country.
I am starting to believe that she is right and everybody in America is slow.</p>
<p>i felt that way too. but talking to all my relatives - i’ve realized that they forget almost everything they learn.</p>
<p>You haven’t really wasted time. My Chinese teacher told me that they had stopped learning school things the 1st semester of “junior” year, and for 1.5 years solely do test prep. Great skill set, totally.</p>
<p>I have cousins in China who study endlessly and get into all the top universities, but they seem a little dull to me. (Or maybe I just don’t understand them - not language-wise, I mean.) China’s education system produces students who have a plethora of knowledge and a dearth of innovation. I mean, it works, but it’s not the best.</p>
<p>I don’t think comparisons to Chinese students are necessary. Just be glad you’re more diversified.</p>
<p>I feel the same way. 
I used to live in India & school is so easy here, so now I feel really lazy. & I feel like all of my cousins/family members there are so much smarter than me & I know for a fact that they’re learning way more than I am. But let’s just be glad that we don’t have 239843 hours of homework & studying every night like they do. :)</p>