Another interesting comment from Maclean's
"Elkin
Asian university students are false high achievers. I have a graduate engineering degree from UofT and also took several undergraduate courses on math, physics and computer science there. I can assure everybody that 100 percent of the asian students I met got their good grades by working in teams when forbidden, copying solutions from solved old assignments and by having unfair access to previous years midterms and final exams gotten as legacy from they fellow countrypeople who were their seniors. For asian students plagiarism and academic fraud was something natural and the way of life.
Now, you can wonder why those asians high achievers do not trascend as scientist, researchers, entrepreneurs, social or political activist while the less high achieving caucasian, black, latin or middle eastern people do transcend.
Here's the reason: unlike the asians they did not cheated their degrees just by fraud!!!! the less achievers worked respecting the rules and put some true effort on everything they did. This achievement-by-clean-work attittude drives to true results and true scientific, economic and social development contribution."