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In the 2000s when I was in high school and college, I used to operate an initiative teaching Chinese culture to adopted Chinese children in New England. One thing that struck me was the demographics. Nearly 50% of the families were Jewish, a third of whom were Annie Leibowitz style lesbians. Education and achievement were huge focuses. You also had to be pretty wealthy to afford the adoption agency fees. The type of American parents who wanted to adopt Chinese at that time wanted to give them every opportunity and had huge confidence in their abilities. I think these parents could’ve adopted almost any kid and they would have become successful.

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The Rise of Chinese girls in America. In 2018, Charlie Munger explained why Americans have so many adopted Chinese Girls. “Every American private school is full of the discarded Chinese girls and they're getting all A's and winning prizes” Charlie explains why this happened: “Because there was so much poverty in China and it was so overpopulated, if an American couple who had no child of their own, they could go to China and adopt a poor Chinese girl.” He makes a very important point: “So in every important city of America, people soon learned that they got better babies by taking the unwanted Chinese girls from the Chinese farms. Those babies on average worked out better than if they had their own children. So everyone wanted a Chinese girl." Charlie explained how they are winning in America: "Every American private school is full of the discarded Chinese girls and they're getting all A's and winning prizes. They're spectacularly successful. You go to Minnesota and see these Chinese girls, they're playing the difficult instruments in the orchestra."
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