<p>Asians turn everyhting into a stupid soap opera</p>
<p>This is depressing. Joining collegeconfidential for the first time and coming across this brings my day down. I didnât know there are that many stereotypes regarding asians.</p>
<p>Donât get depressed, Itâs true.
I really could write on essay on how itâs they arnât so racist in their actions.
But lets keep it to this:</p>
<p>They see application after application, after seeing that the Average SAT score for the Asian applicants is 2000 vs Hispanics at 1700. Youâre going to notice a trend. Is that really so wrong to believe in something you repeatedly see?</p>
<p>They are sort of right anyways. The asian culture puts emphasis on social conformity and education. </p>
<p>All the dumb Asians are in Asia, they donât send loud over spoken idiots here. Or rather, they are incapable of coming because they donât have a fence to jump like they do down south. Now I am making generalizations, THERE ARE STUPID Asians here. But as a group, Asian Americans are probably smarter than Asians from Asia because all the stupid Asians weigh them down.</p>
<p>So Iâm not saying itâs fair. Cause itâs not. So the best that you can do is fight the stereotype and stop being so sensitive to the matter.
And before you guys peg with racism, cause Itâs not racism Iâm just not being politically correct, I am Chinese AND Mexican⊠Just thought I would throw that in there, not that it matters.</p>
<p>This is America, people. Unfortunately, you are bound to see a lot of stereotyping/ridiculing of Asians, especially Asian Males.</p>
<p>That is weird. Iâve always admired Asians and wished I could claim at least some relation to them. I only have much experience with Japanese people, but it is true that, at least in my experience, they are usually hard-working smart, and reserved. I always thought that was a good thing, but evidently some colleges prefer loud and lazy students.</p>
<p>Hey, Iâm IndianâŠIndiaâs also a part of AsiaâŠwhy does âAsiansâ only refer to Chinese or japaneseâŠ
Anyway, The thing is, to get into US universities as an asian, youâve gotta be good, cuz they wonât take average people. They want smart, hard workers. And to be that good, you gotta study hard. And that means, itâs possible that such people arenât very social or extrovert. </p>
<p>Itâs not Asians who have these features, but itâs possible that the asians who make it to the US have such features. </p>
<p>It ****es me off too when I see Indians in the US shown as geeks. But then, thatâs a fact. You canât say indians are geeks. But only geeks (in general) will be accepted in US universities.
So end the discussion.</p>
<p>hey, i didnât know there are automatic word censors!!!</p>
<p>NO WAY. People stereotyping other people??!!</p>
<p>This is news to me!!</p>
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<p>I donât know how I came upon this thread but I registered an ID just so I could respond. Both me and my wife are successful business owners who have over the years been responsible for the hiring of many people. I say to the Asians who are unfairly being discriminated in the college admissions process, donât worry in the end your merits will bear fruit. I can easily say the âmore Asianâ the hire the better their work ethic and skills, Asian americans are going to be the only chance this country has against the onslaught of competition we face from abroad in the coming years. The discrimination you are all victims of today in the college admissions process is the total perversion of the merit based system that made this country great.
Start companies of your own, be confident in your abilities and donât let some admissions counselor that has watched too many disney movies on diversity keep you from getting the education you want.
Harvard was the past, the universities in the east (your cousins) the ones that admit on purely brain power will be where top companies will be hiring from in the near future if not already - I know I do.</p>
<p>^Are you implying we should move back to our home countries and study hard so we can get into tsinghua/beida/university of tokyo?</p>
<p>* Right. * Great, practical, advice.</p>
<p>If it isnât true for you, then it shouldnât bother you. F-the-BS! </p>
<p>Besides, </p>
<p>you Asian boys make my job that much easier. </p>
<p>ROFLâŠ</p>
<p>@Employer</p>
<p>Actually, Asian-Americans are disproportionately underrepresented at the executive/upper management level in business (even in Silicon Valley) and Asian-American males make LESS than their white-male counterparts who have the same education level.</p>
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<p>Itâs just regional peculiarity.</p>
<p>âAsiansâ in the US tends to mean East Asians while in the UK, the terms refers to people from the Indian subcontinent (and East Asians are referred to as âOrientalsâ - which is a no, no here).</p>
<p>Also, getting good grades and being social arenât mutually exclusive.</p>
<p>i find asia to be much louder and much more social than america. in asia, you always find people yelling in the streets or markets at each other and its really noisy. if youâve ever been at a dinner party with asian relatives or friends, you know they talk for hours and hours nonstop and really loud. I wonder if generally asian americans tend to be âquiet and shyâ because of the cultural differences.</p>
<p>The loud talking only happens in open air markets and stuff. People donât talk loudly if you go to the upper class areas, at least from my experience. And I feel like Iâm pretty loud-well Iâm not loud, I just speak my mind.</p>
<p>The reason why Asians are pegged that way is because of the rotten education system in Korea⊠you would know what Iâm talking about if youâve been to school there. Which is #1 reason why my dad sent my mom, my brother, and me here to study in America. Thankfully I donât consider myself as a mindless brain calculator child.</p>
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<p>Korea produces mindless brain calculator children. America simply produces mindless children.</p>
<p>I had a math teacher last year who was previously a professor in Korea, and she literally did refer to her old students there as ârobotsâ. She really enjoys teaching in America now, because the students actually engage her in the teaching.</p>
<p>thats kinda funny because itâs not true. I was talking about korean children as mindless brain calculator children because they lack creativity and the ability to think outside the box in general because the education system forces the kids to conform to one narrow - very narrow - path or fail. I am a korean student myself, so donât take it the wrong way. America offers so much more creativity and promotion of each individuals. Kids who donât use the system to their full advantage turn out to be mindless children and kids who do take it donât turn out to be one.</p>
<p>Here in the US we value certain qualities that are not typical of Asian culture. The Asians who are assimilated into the US (with parents born here, and they born here themselves) are pretty much just like any white American. In general the Asians who are closely connected to Asian culture will generally have less âsociableâ qualities but it doesnât mean better or worse, itâs a cultural difference. Over there, we americans may be seen as obnoxious and dirty.</p>