Are Asians Smarter?

If whites value intellectual properties more than Asians, why is it that Asian parents are stricter than white parents when it comes to school?


Probability.

First, not all Asian parents are stricker. Second, the "sterotypical" Asian parents believes that a good education would lead to the success of the child in the future in terms of finding a good job and etc, thus stricter, this has nothing to do with intellectual properties.

And why is probability so "important" in pascal's time aside from playing a gambling game?
compare that to the "important" use of math at that time in China in astronomy and inventing the calendar.