Any asians here that are weak at math?

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Well I am 3/4th asian in my ancestry and I am not very good at math like the rest of the asian kids... I donno if it has something to do with Aspergers ....but everyone in my family including the aspergians and those who are not asian are brilliant at math... Thank god though because I got through math at school with their help..

I was ridiculed at school that being asian I was not brilliant at math My own parents were ashamed of me because of that It made me feel worthless lol

Last edited by pree10shun on 24 Jun 2011, 2:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

silly stereotypes are silly

Indeed. I still have yet to meet many asian people so I'm not sure, but anyways it does sound silly.

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Just thought I'd ask while we have them all gathered here.

Lol! Pervert!

Stop making fun of my thread!...

Ahm but I wouldn't mind seeing some topless guys though... That is what you want too right?

I think it is all cultural, isn't it?


To use an analogy, my small hometown worshipped high school football. Young boys, if they had potential, develop their skillset and bodies from a young age to play football. In exchange, they were treated special in the community. Some were good enough to get a free education and even a couple got paid for a short time. Most weren't all that good and had to go in a different direction to the point where you could argue that they would have been better off studying maths from a young age.

I think the Asian community, if such thing exists, prioritize with a better look at the future, so if even you suck at math that you've developed some of skills and your brain to be a person who uses one's head to solve problems. It makes better sense to do that, though you may have been just making fun of asian stereotypes.

How is it making fun?...

Its just that my mom never knew I had a problem learning math and she was all like "You are an asian who can't do math" so when I was failing math she used to beat me up to make learn math... My mom's a math major and teaches maths at university so I was able to pass math with their help but seriously if someone else had done the practice I had done they'd have been on top of class in math lol

And yes I am glad they taught me math and I am not very bad at it now...

Aiiie... "kumon" sheets. Yeah, I remember those.

@OP, which maths are you wondering about? I was fine up through most of multivariable calculus, and then differential equations got the better of me. Feh.

its very cultural. I have a special perspective of the football and the math thing since I come from a place where American culture mixes with Asian culture-Hawaii. I am 3/4 Japanese 1/4 German and American, but I associated with an American identity so thererfore i concentrated on football and sports which gave me a higher social standing than say a nerdy Asian kid who was good at math. Most Asian-Americans who are 2nd or 3rd generation no longer have that 'being good at school gets u a better future and prestige and honor to the family ' thing. I dont. I was horrible at math, I took regular math in high school and had to take Math 111 in college twice.

The Asians who are good at math thing is for real Asians in Asia, or immigrant Asians to another country. Once assimilated after a generation or two they are no different culturally from the other ppl of that country. Most black people in America are no more African than their White neighbors culturally, same with the Asians in America, they are no more Japanese, Chinese or Korean than their blonde blue eyed friends, co workers or neighbors

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