Why are ASIANS better than WHITE people at MATH?

[El Diablo Blanco]

I was in the library doing hard core math work, building up a good sweat and brain pump when this little chinese guy about 5'6" 110 pounds sits in the desk next to me in front of the mirror and pulls out his book on Complex Analysis, Microlocal Calculus and Relativistic Quantum Theory.  What gives?  How is it that I can never understand Microlocal Calculus but they can?

[johnnynoname]

they are always concentrating
why do you think they are always squinting

[Kwon]

They were brought in as "math-slaves" during the dark ages...

Similar to how the dark nubians were brought in as labor-slaves to build the Egyptian pyramids.

Only those with high enough math-skills survived the boat trip..

[grab an umbrella]

I was in the library doing hard core math work, building up a good sweat and brain pump when this little chinese guy about 5'6" 110 pounds sits in the desk next to me in front of the mirror and pulls out his book on Complex Analysis, Microlocal Calculus and Relativistic Quantum Theory.  What gives?  How is it that I can never understand Microlocal Calculus but they can?

Asians are no smarter at math than white people.  Asians generally just have a much better work ethic than their white counter-parts.

[El Diablo Blanco]

Asians are no smarter at math than white people.  Asians generally just have a much better work ethic than their white counter-parts.

It could be the higher testosterone levels

[TRIX]

they can see sidewards from there slant eyes (and cheat)

[Beefjake]

Better than US whites maybe...

[MB_722]

Asians are no smarter at math than white people.  Asians generally just have a much better work ethic than their white counter-parts.

BOOM!

My thoughts exactly as I clicked this thread.

It's all about work ethic

[Ron]

Asians are no smarter at math than white people.  Asians generally just have a much better work ethic than their white counter-parts.

No one is smarter than someone else.

It is all on how you are brought up, what ethics you do for your kids, and how you apply yourself.

Whereas I spent time with my kids, trying to teach them reading, match, books, etc, and not letting them watch mindless television all the time (violent stuff, etc), others just let their kids play video games, watch crap on tv, and more.

[lovemonkey]

Are you guys suggesting that "mos" boyfriend cheated on him with an Asian lover in the hunt for a bigger cock?

[Eyeball Chambers]

No one is smarter than someone else.

It is all on how you are brought up, what ethics you do for your kids, and how you apply yourself.

Whereas I spent time with my kids, trying to teach them reading, match, books, etc, and not letting them watch mindless television all the time (violent stuff, etc), others just let their kids play video games, watch crap on tv, and more.

Will you adopt me Ron? 

I can fax you the papers ASAP!

[24KT]

Education is and studying are prized in Asian cultures. They take it very seriously from an early age.

Here is a test that is supposedly part of a second grade computer class in China. 
Some figure it out right away. Others report having to work on it for a week or more to solve it.

Frog Leap Test

easy peasy. 

[Coda]

Ron is right.

Actually language plays a big part in it as well.  Most asian languages have a more simple and literal translation for numbers.  Where we say eleven some asian languages translate that # as 10 1.  Much simpler for kids to learn quickly.  Not to mention asians go to school for longer days and more days during the year.  Read "Outliers" by Gladwell if you are interested in that type of thing.

[Eyeball Chambers]

Education is and studying are prized in Asian cultures. They take it very seriously from an early age.

Here is a test that is supposedly part of a second grade computer class in China. 
Some figure it out right away. Others report having to work on it for a week or more to solve it.

Frog Leap Test

easy peasy. 

That wasn't easy. 

[Andy Griffin]

Ron is right.

Actually language plays a big part in it as well.  Most asian languages have a more simple and literal translation for numbers.  Where we say eleven some asian languages translate that # as 10 1.  Much simpler for kids to learn quickly.  Not to mention asians go to school for longer days and more days during the year.  Read "Outliers" by Gladwell if you are interested in that type of thing.

The harder someone works, the more talented and lucky he appears.  I have spoken.

[doison]

I was in the library doing hard core math work, building up a good sweat and brain pump when this little chinese guy about 5'6" 110 pounds sits in the desk next to me in front of the mirror and pulls out his book on Complex Analysis, Microlocal Calculus and Relativistic Quantum Theory.  What gives?  How is it that I can never understand Microlocal Calculus but they can?

Relativistic Quantum Theory?  What were you doing in a grad school library?

[troponin]

That's a brutal semester of courses. 
A lot of people claim that the basics of number theory come easier to a lot of Asian cultures because of the way their number system is structured.  The words and symbols are "easier" to associate with the numbers. 

The English number system has oddities like eleven, twelve, thirteen that seem arbitrary and difficult to associate with the flow of other numbers.  They claim that Germans have it worse with their einundzwanzig, neunzehn, and being drunk all the time. 

Being able to relate the basics of number structure and getting a better foundation for math really helps when you combine it with a society that awards academic success with popularity and a race of students constantly making up for having a small penis. 

[ToxicAvenger]

I was in the library doing hard core math work, building up a good sweat and brain pump when this little chinese guy about 5'6" 110 pounds sits in the desk next to me in front of the mirror and pulls out his book on Complex Analysis, Microlocal Calculus and Relativistic Quantum Theory.  What gives?  How is it that I can never understand Microlocal Calculus but they can?

cause most of us did calc in the 9th grade...and if we did not finish the copious amounts of homework everyday we'd get caned at school...plus we wore uniforms..which i think should be implemented...schools a sense of academia

american schools permit students to take the easy way out and hence be dumber...severly cane a few of the misbehaving dumbfucks a few times and see their grades pick up in proportion!


i remember going to UMCP at 15ish and breezing thru calc 1 2 and diffy qs...i'd already done all the shit add neaseum by the time i grad high skool

[Nordic Superman]

No one is smarter than someone else.

False; not everyone is born with equal intelligence no matter how hard you push your political correct Utopian view on the matter.

[BayGBM]

Dartmouth Selects Its New President From Harvard
By TAMAR LEWIN

Dr. Jim Yong Kim, a Harvard Medical School official who has fought diseases that affect the poor around the world, has been named the next president of Dartmouth College.

Dr. Kim, 49, trained as both a physician and an anthropologist, receiving his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

He is an unusual choice for a university president. He is known less for his academic achievements than for his groundbreaking work as co-founder of Partners in Health, and then at the World Health Organization, bringing effective medical treatment for H.I.V. and AIDS and for drug-resistant tuberculosis to the poor.

Dr. Kim, who will be the first Asian-American to head an Ivy League institution, will take up the post in July, succeeding James Wright, 69, who has been president of Dartmouth for 11 years...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/education/03dartmouth.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=dartmouth&st=cse