Two Million Minutes-sending the wrong message?

The article I read was about a film called "Two Million Minutes" by Robert Compton. The film is a documentary that criticizes American high school students by giving the message they don't work as hard as their foreign counterparts in places like China and India. The article implies that high school students in the U.S are more lacksadaisical with their education. I wholeheartedly disagree. First of all, high school students in America that are from China and India are not only from a different country, but a different culture as well. I think it's absurd to press a stereotype onto every student because it seems to be the norm. Saying that all American high school students are lazy and don't work as hard as their Asian peers is close-minded and wrong. Since when is it okay to lump people together based on their culture and background? Isn't that what we've been fighting against in this country for years?

I will admit that the message the film is trying to get across is more about globalization. The idea behind it is to wake up your average every day suburban middle class high school student so they don't lose their possible jobs to foreign competitors in the future. However, the way the article speaks about the film, the impression I get is that it is close-minded and stereotypical. I feel that how hard a student works has to do with too many factors to pin it on just one. Students' home lives, extracurricular activities, teachers, peers and own personalities determine how hard they work in school, not the color of their skin or the country they were born in.