> pardon my french, but you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Uh, I'm the child of asian immigrant parents and know tons of people who are also, so I do kinda know what I'm talking about.
> oftentimes these kids come out socially maladjusted, suicidal and/or homicidal, or somewhere else on the human spectrum other than 'great'.
Kids from all sorts of upbringings come out that way. Those are outliers. In my experience, kids from asian immigrant households are far less likely to suffer from more run of the mill maladies: aimlessness, lack of motivation, drug use that interferes with life, etc.
> this 'model minority' viewpoint is harmful in the extreme.
My super competitive east coast high school, which has a race-blind admissions system, has a freshman class this year that's 65% asian in a county that's only 18% asian. These kids are vastly disproportionately the children of relatively recent immigrants. Asian overachieving isn't an imagined phenomenon, and parenting style has a lot to do with it.
> and for the past 20 or so years the 'restaurant' or 'dry cleaner' is more likely to be 'software company' or 'biotech company'.
My comment was directed at asian immigrants who own dry cleaners and restaurants, it doesn't presume that all asian immigrants own dry cleaners and restaurants.
> go to a University of California campus and ask how many of the thousands of asian kids you see if their parents owned a dry cleaner or a restaurant.
Most of the asian kids at UCB aren't the children of recent immigrants (California has a very large well-assimilated asian population). Most children of recent asian immigrants aren't at UCB.