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Re:More parents, students saying 'no' to homework by lycidas on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @01:34PM (#10459662)
Chinese and Indian students in America also have the benefit of being from some of the highest socioeconomic groups in America [0]. It is more a factor of the group's average wealth rather than the fact that they are foreign.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

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Re:More parents, students saying 'no' to homework by benihana on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @02:22PM (#10460045)
>It is more a factor of the group's average wealth rather than the fact that they are foreign.

How do you know that for sure? Maybe their higher average wealth is a function of their success as immigrants, not the other way around.

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Re:More parents, students saying 'no' to homework by hugh4 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @03:01PM (#10460297)
Or the causation goes the other way, and they get rich because they're smart.
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