Maybe i'm way off beam in my thinking but I think that achieving anything in this life is a state of mind for the individual concerned, nothing to do with race or creed, just a mindset that drives the individual to achieve, no matter if educationally or in lifeskills themselves.
Perhaps it's genetic, I really have no idea.
I can only speak for my own life.
I never did well at school, just scraped through with a couple of points beyond the basic level for a pass mark, but once I left and got out into the big wide world I came into my own and did what many people consider to be exceptionally well in lifeskills, so I ended up in an enviable position to the average person.
I put that down solely to the fact that I loved what I was doing and went at it with a vengence.
It didn't hurt me one iota that I married a lady who backed me all the way, even when she thought I was wrong, and more than once turned out to be, but still came bobbing up smelling of roses somehow lol.
I guess there was a healthy helping of good luck in my life too ๐
Leaving my own experiences aside ...
I think it might also push things along a lot when the ones making the best of things are also new arrivals in a country, so they feel they have to prove their own worth far more, so they go at it hell for leather, and their parents are prepared to work their guts out to provide the means to pay for the top class education.
Another school of thought is that when any person receives constant healthy encouragement they will usually do well, but anyone who's constantly told they're no good, worthless, or sadly lacking all the time is doomed to failure, but there again I have seen more than one person rise above such mental torture to become top dog in their chosen world of enterprise, but I would guess they would be exceptions to the general rule.
As I say, I really don't know enough to hazard a good guess at the reasons for why some peope do very well in life while others sink to the bottom of the life pool.
