Now you're pretty much stereotyping. Japan has its share of lazy students and under achievers just like every other country. It all goes back to the parenting in general. If the parent doesn't care about his/her child's school work, then the child probably won't take it seriously either. If the parent gets on his/her child to do the best he/she can in school and take a healthy interest in his/her child's school work, then the child will more than likely do well with it or at least try. Just because someone has a Japanese child doesn't mean that that child will miraculously and automatically do well in school.
I have a friend from Osaka, Natsuko, who's living here in Richmond and going to the University near me. She's been working hard on getting her Masters (sorry, can't recall the the field of study right off). She's Japanese, but ironically, she's terrible when it comes to math and science, something that the Japanese are supposed to be geniuses with. You really shouldn't be stereotyping in such a way.
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Originally Posted by MMM
How close do you feel to your African heritage?
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Probably like most African Americans I know, far from it, since we can't trace our roots to figure that out. Not all, mind you, have this problem, but most people I've come across do, my own family included. Our heritage was, technically, stripped away from us when our ancestors were brought over here. You know, forced to learn another language and forced to embrace a whole other culture, while our own kind of "vanished" over the years.
I sometimes wonder if this is the reason why I'm so interested in learning about so many other cultures since I don't really know much about my own and don't know of a way to actually learn about it since when I was old enough to even question it, the older members of my family, had already passed on.