Tiger Child's View Paper Tigers What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers

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<p>Then what you say is true for Indians (and now Pakistanis) should be true for Malaysians, Singaporeans, and Hong Kongers, since Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong all used to be part of the British Empire. Is it? That’s an “out-of-sample” test of your explanation. But just like the first time you pulled this, you don’t answer the question.</p>

<p>And what exactly made the various East Asian nations “insular”? You originally wrote, “Indians have experienced democracy; they also, historically, have interfaced with western cultural values and semantics through British influence, which has permeated their overseas education as well.”</p>

<p>Well, the Japanese have also experienced democracy, both before and after WWII. Moreover, during the Meiji Era, they began to import from the West wholesale. Over three decades, the Japanese government hired thousands of foreign advisors to modernize Japan. Did they come from China? No. They came from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Continental Europe (i.e. the “West”). It got to the point where Chinese people realized that the cheapest way to get a Western education was to attend a university in Japan. And if anyone wants a stark image of just how “Westernized” Japan became, you need only compare the [url=<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Itoh_Sukeyuki.jpg]copy[/url”>File:Itoh Sukeyuki.jpg - Wikipedia]copy[/url</a>] with the [url=<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_and_Kate_wedding.jpg]original[/url”>File:William and Kate wedding.jpg - Wikipedia]original[/url</a>].</p>

<p>So why do Indians “get it” better than the Japanese, epiphany?</p>

<p>If Indians assimilate better than East Asians, it has NOTHING to do with the United Kingdom’s role in ruling over India as a colony for two centuries. Nothing.</p>