Asian Student Superiority?

I recently remarked that, of the list of 44 San Francisco Bay Area National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists, exactly 75% had Chinese, Indian, or Japanese last names. I then suggested that the U.S. approach people from those cultures and find out what they are doing right.
A retired schoolteacher replied that her experience was that in a Parent-Teacher Conference she might say, for instance, that the student was having some difficulty with Math. The Asian-heritage parents would respond that they would spend two hours a night working with the student until the student had mastered the subject.
A non-Asian parent, on the other hand, would say, “Oh, well, I wasn’t very good at Math either.”
America has a choice. We can dig in and regain our standing as world leaders or we can continue to sink into irrelevance.