http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/06/smart-vs-cool-culture-race-and-ethnicity-in-silicon-valley-schools/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:43:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/06/smart-vs-cool-culture-race-and-ethnicity-in-silicon-valley-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-62920 ancient one Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:38:50 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1023#comment-62920 Regard the Asian Americans described, it's fairly accurate but not completely true for all Asian-American kids. At my kids' mostly Asian private schools, (K-8 and high school), getting good grades is definitely part of being "cool" and popular. I suspect though, that there are still a lot of Asian American kids for who getting grades is not particularly cool. It was that way when I was in high school. The Asian gang member types who I grew up with would never say hi to me when they were in a group (they would say hello when they were alone). My good grades certainly didn't make me popular with them! Years later, I would recognize "Augusto" in "The Debut" (http://debutfilm.pinoynet.com/launch.asp)as a type of person I had run into before, and he was based on people the filmmakers ran into when they were growing up in the Berryessa area of Silicon Valley. Regard the Asian Americans described, it’s fairly accurate but not completely true for all Asian-American kids. At my kids’ mostly Asian private schools, (K-8 and high school), getting good grades is definitely part of being “cool” and popular. I suspect though, that there are still a lot of Asian American kids for who getting grades is not particularly cool. It was that way when I was in high school. The Asian gang member types who I grew up with would never say hi to me when they were in a group (they would say hello when they were alone). My good grades certainly didn’t make me popular with them! Years later, I would recognize “Augusto” in “The Debut” (http://debutfilm.pinoynet.com/launch.asp)as a type of person I had run into before, and he was based on people the filmmakers ran into when they were growing up in the Berryessa area of Silicon Valley.

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