70% of Science Award Finalists Are Children of Immigrants
Of the 40 finalists, 28 had parents born in other countries: 16 from China, 10 from India, one from South Korea and one from Iran.
"In proportion to their presence in the U.S. population, one would expect only one child of an Indian (or Chinese) immigrant parent every two and a half years to be an Intel Science Search finalist, not 10 in a year," wrote the report's author, NFAP director Stuart Anderson.
Finalists interviewed for the report attributed their interest in research to their parents' at udes.
"Our parents brought us up with love of science as a value," David Kenneth Tang-Quan, whose parents emigrated from China to California
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As always, the Repug attacks on teachers and their unions are totally dishonest, misdirected, clouding the real issues with the Repugs' distracting bull .
Somebody let us know when Repugs address the real problems facing USA.
Not at all a surprise to see so many Indian kids. Lots of Indian children spend their entire pre-adult lives in preparation for the JEE exam, which is like taking 4 GRE subject tests at age 17 or 18 (can't remember which year they're taken). I'd guess the majority of the parents of those 10 Indian winners are IIT grads (the JEE is the IIT entrance exam) who have their kids drilled the same way.
The American society as a whole doesn't understand the necessity of hard work and improving one self. Children from less advantaged countries have parents who instill better values of learning in their children, as they know it's a key to a better life. These people know that America is what you make of it. Too bad we have too many that blame their failures on others.
Kids from non Nanny-states kick our kids' asses? I'm shocked. I'm sure the teachers in India and china have great benefits and pension plans. Lol
Like black surgeons who obviously can only make it that far due to affirmative action...
I'll say this about the Indians and Chinese-- smart as , but not the most creative folks I've ever run into.
Know what you call a med student that barely passed?
Doctor
Okay... what does that have to do with black surgeons or affirmative action?
What are their benefits or pension plans?
Nothing. Btw, you should watch a movie called Bad Medicine, circa 1985. Alan Arkin is in it. Hilarious.
I heard the Bon Jovi hit...
"Kids from non Nanny-states kick our kids' asses"
WTF? RIF
These kids' parents are immigrants.
The kids are US citizens educated in US schools, where they kick Euro-Americans' asses.
So, it has nothing to do with unions? Got it.
no, students success has nothing to do with the Repugs' hated ty public employee teachers and the Repugs' hated Democrat-contributing unions.
No one else sees a problem with the OP?
they get paid all for salary, its where the private tuition after school hours is where the moneys at....
i got cousin learning how to be a teacher in vietnam, i heard that once you graduate you have to pay bribe money to a school to be posted in your city/town or you get posted in the s of the country...salary is like 100 bucks a month, the bribe money is about US$1000-2000
yes asian familys who usually immigrate push their children to study hard, cause they dont want them to grow up and live a hard life like their parents, heck even some parents never went to school...then these parents will rely on the fruition of their children to take care of them when they get older...thats just how it is...
I'm sorry you believe that.
I didn't say it, you did.
I never said such a thing.
Are you intentionally lying because of your hatred of me, or is you English so bad you thought that's what I said?
I suggest you read what I said in context and stop the slander.
Maybe I should just expect this from the typical kool aid drinking liberal lemming you are.
Sure you did.
Put your money where your mouth is.
Prove it.
I said Affirmative Action, specifically racial quota systems, harmed the black community in critical fields like surgery because people didn't know if they were a product of affirmative action, or if they really were good.
You have that backwards. I know blacks can make it in any field. I never said blacks couldn't make it without a quota system. It's those promoting what affirmative action has become that believe blacks can't make it without the quota system.
If you support Affirmative Action, you are a racist.
Actually, that's nothing like what you said. I could go back and pull up the quote, but in a nuts you made clear you wouldn't trust a black surgeon since he could be a product of affirmative action. Never mind the fact he need to have passed every exam much like everyone else.
Not surprised you're trying to change your tune post-facto though.
This coming from the guy that would shoot dark-colored guys on the border... you have a really twisted view of racism. As in you have no idea what you're talking about.
It never crosses my mind when I encounter an educated black person that they are where they are because of affirmative action. Who thinks like that?
This brings us to a larger point. The only people who even contemplate this are conservatives. The same conservatives that tell us that affirmative action hurts minorities........because conservatives will assume that you are a doctor only because of affirmative action.. This only hurts minorities in the eyes of the right..
Well, since the bot couldn't be bothered to link it, I have a hard time digging into it.
Conservatives do not think this way. NeoCons, on the other hand, do.
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