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It could also be a selection thing though, you'd have to compare "typical American students in a typical American school environment" to "typical Chinese students in a typical Chinese school environment".

Still probably quite different, but maybe more similar than looking at Chinese emigrés vs typical "US average".

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I'd second OP's opinion as a 1.5 Gen.

Immigrant parents (Asian, Latino, Eastern European, African) in America will push their kids harder because when you're an immigrant, a mistake like getting suspended in school or a DUI can destroy any chance at naturalization because you need to establish "Good Moral Character" [0] which is largely at the discretion of the presiding interviewer and a backlogged USCIS Immigration Judge

[0] - https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-d-chapter...

the original article is talking about native Chinese in China, though the fact that they're attending a school with an english teacher from America is also a strong filter

The article characterizes them as elite students, so you then need to compare them to elite American students. Elite as in highly performing in school and motivated.

True, the author is teaching at an elite Beijing high school. But elite American high schools are usually disproportionally populated with Asian (an very often Chinese) students.

I'm talking about lr4444lr's comment

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