Re: Writing Systems and Biscriptal Children

nicole.eap@snet.net writes:
> He attributes to this the fact that
>Asian-Americans are sometimes really smart and hard workers and stuff -
>huge huge stereotypes.  Again, I'm not sure how much I believe him, but
>it's an interesting theory.

Well, he's looking at a very small percentage of the Asian Americans in
the US (Probably just Chinese and Japanese). Filipinos, which are becoming
the largest Asian American minority use the Latin script. Vietnamese use
the Latin Script. Koreans use Hangul which is closer to an alphabet than
Ideographic script, Thai use a syllabary, etc.....

_Most_ Asian Americans (Not all mind you :)) work hard because the quality
of your work shows how well your parents raised you. I'd say working hard
is a cultural thing, and not because you know two different scripts.