In one recent survey, 66.2% of Chinese high school students said they planned to take care of their parents in old age.

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Fifty-five percent of the Chinese stopped school with a high-school education or less, while in the United States 46% stopped with a high-school education or less.

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Tom Ying, head of history at Burwood Girls High School in Sydney, grew up as a Chinese child in the white Australia of the 1950s.

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