What makes Japanesse smarter than American? Education system or is it genetic?

Question

You may say, "ok, they may be smart, but some of them kill themself when they dont get good great and are afraid of their parents reaction."

Well, teens in here kill themself because they dont have a good body, or because they are not accepted by other pears. Teens here commit suicide and murder jist because they see so in a video game or movie.

I just want to know, why do Asians ten dto be smarter? I dont say that they are all smarter, but they sure tend to be.

Answer 1

They are raised with better ethics and work standards. They know nothing is given to them.

Answer 2

First of all the Q itself is very confusing. Smarter in what sense, looks or intelligence or fashion or style or Nationalism.
On some parameters the Americans are smarter and on some others the Japanese are smarter. And on the last parameter both are alike. In Asia only the Japanese and the Koreans(South) are smarter and comparable to the Americans and the West.
Infact I must say that both are genetically superior(to whom?????).
The Japanese arouse fom the dust and ashes of the WW2 and America one of the newest countries is the most powerful. And Indians the 5,000 year old civilization need some other culture and language to follow.
So only the Japanese and the Koreans(South) in Asia are as smart as the Westerners.

Answer 3

well for the most part, they are smarter because they have to be. school starts at like 7AM and runs until 5PM Monday through Saturday with a good stack of homework every day of the week. also high school is not exactly public access, you have to take entrance exams to get into a good high school. If you don't make it into a good high school you wont get into a good collage or university and that will severely limit your employment options when you graduate.
on top of all the school work they have to do, they are also expected to take part in after school clubs. for the most part it is not mandatory but high schools and collages look at your extra circulars when deciding if they are going to admit you or not.
unless you are smart or very talented in some other aspect of life besides school you don't have much hope of going very far so long story short they have to be smart and most of them work their buns off to be that way.

(feel free to correct me if I got any details wrong, for the most part I am pretty sure I am on the money but I have made mistakes in the past and will probably do so again in the future)

Answer 4

there are no widely accepted psychological studies which show that any ethnic group is smarter than any other.

that said, "smarter" tends to be measured in specific ways and those ways are frequently biased and in ways that are culturally warped.

Think of the biggest geeks from your high school days. Dollars to donut holes, those people were adept at learning from books. Most tests of "smart" used in America tend to reward people who learn well out of books -- and, more general tests of "smart" show that the book learners aren't so good at other tasks requiring different smarts.

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Japan, and China, and Korea, and all the cultures that derive from them tend to place very high value on education and learning. This takes the form of a great deal of parental pressure on children to do well in school.

It also takes the form of many daily hours of homework. If the teacher doesn't assign "enough" homework, the mother will invent more and her children will do it.

Time on task [amount of homework done] has been shown over and over again to be a predictor of schooling "success". Another excellent predictor [and the overall most significant, btw] is the time and dedication of the child's mother.

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It is quite likely that the effect you think you're seeing is the result of the different cultural value that Asian heritage mothers place on educaton.

Answer 5

They work harder at school stuff and less on social stuff. They don't play sports during the week or go to movies, parties ect.

Answer 6

well it's more of the education system in America sense a lot of countries come here there are Lot's of people who sign up to be teachers who don't know hardly any English so kids don't really understand what there saying which lead some of the children to fail in school.

Answer 7

If you really believe that statement then I guess you are not Japanese

Answer 8

Where are you getting this information from?
Generalizations like this are not only historically inaccurate but are usually perpetrated by someone who has no concrete facts to back them up.

Answer 9

Working and studying harder.