"white flight"

This article is fascinating.

I don't think I'd send my children to a school with tons of first generation asians. Generally, I think it's true that they come from families that are excessively competitive and driven, and hence, a little bit unbalanced. But at the same time, those are probably the same things that drive you to succeed, when you're a naive youngling with no idea about life and what to do. Well, I doubt I'll ever live in a city with a >40%+ asian population, so I'm not worried. And per my own experience, I support private school education. The granola-y, liberal, horse-riding, potsmoking kind. Not the Harvard-Westlake kind.

But then again I also agree with the quote I just pulled. White ppl aren't afraid of competing against themselves. Just if someone else is squeezing them out.

"To many of Cupertino's Asians, some of the assumptions made by white parents -- that Asians are excessively competitive and single-minded -- play into stereotypes. Top schools in nearby, whiter Palo Alto, which also have very high test scores, also feature heavy course loads, long hours of homework and overly stressed students, says Denise Pope, director of Stressed Out Students, a Stanford University program that has worked with schools in both Palo Alto and Cupertino. But whites don't seem to be avoiding those institutions, or making the same negative generalizations, Asian families note, suggesting that it's not academic competition that makes white parents uncomfortable but academic competition with Asian-Americans."