<p>Um...I like Sublime and The All-American Rejects...not really Asian either. Everyone has their distinguishing traits; we're not all faceless robots. :)</p>
<p>As for having an advantage, I wouldn't bank on it. The world is pretty big and colleges are filled with a variety of different students. I'm sure there are other humanities Asians, if not on CC, then somewhere out there. However, you do have a better chance than someone like me, who loves Biology. haha</p>
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<p>asian parents are pretty polar. i bet your dad is just trying to intimidate you.</p>
<p>Oh, god. lol. My parents used to be like that...and in some ways, they still are. I'm a senior now, and they've grown to be a little more open-minded about my college choices (they're still narrow-minded as hell). </p>
<p>Actually, they're off my case now because they're too busy "grooming" my younger sister. </p>
<p>Asian parents are psychotic -- but you gotta love 'em anyway :)
Just pray you don't turn out to be like them when you get older, lol.</p>
<p>I don't think ANY Asian parents can compete with the following two... Eyes</a> on the Prize - TIME</p>
<p>Full scholarship to Harvard... that's insane..</p>
<p>Joe, </p>
<p>I've read that book! My mom bought it for me when I was in 5th grade, I think? I thought it was really good because even as a 10-year-old I found the novel engaging.</p>
<p>The article, Eyes on the Prize is quite the inspirational story. I wish my parents were strict to me at a minor age.</p>
<p>^^^ I'd second that</p>
<p>I wouldn't second that!
The constant talking to the baby at a young age sounds good, but seriously? Diary entries at 3 about why you did something wrong? (When I was 3 I was only starting to learn my Chinese characters!) HOLDING A PIECE OF ICE UNTIL YOUR HAND TURNS PURPLE?! Why would you guys have wanted that kind of childhood?</p>
<p>^exactly! and isn't that child abuse?</p>
<p>not in the mainland it isn't. it's character-building , sha gua.</p>
<p>There's a kiddie TV show called "Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat" and I thought it was sooo awesome back when I was like...6 and her brother is called Dongwa and her sister is called Sheegwa and it's just the CUTEST THING EVER. </p>
<p>Okay. <em>pumps the air back out of her head</em></p>
<p>I guess I wouldn't mind if parents were strict. I mean I would be at a much better college if they treated education critically. I'm not complaining that my parents don't love me, because they do. But in life good intentions don't always give good results, and vice versa. If good intentions always makes children successful, then all the parents that spoil their children with lavish gifts and autonomy will be financially supported all the way through retirement by their ivy ridden children. But that is rarely the case. And also who ever said that "extremely" strict parents(like the ones that the article mentioned) have bad intentions? I argue that they have good intentions. If those parents(the ones in the article) hated their child they could have just abandoned her in the river or something. But they didn't. They care enough about their child to actually spend prodigious amounts time to read to her, to build character, to rigorously pursue education etc.. Also, did she become mentally ill and commit suicide? No she instead received a full scholarship to Harvard which will in push her into the upper stratas and provide her and her future family's generation with a very comfortable life. In retrospect, I fail to see what did her parents did wrong.</p>
<p>awwww. my friend's facebook note tonight:</p>
<p>"if you dont know already, ive been grounded beyond belief for the past two weeks. no phone. banned from goin out. basically im socially retarded. my connection to the world...my computer and facebook. and its not for like weeks but for like months. im guessin ill be out in time to see saw 5 whenever that comes out, and that might even be a stretch.</p>
<p>now what have i done to deserve such a punishment?
the answers simple. its 4 simple words. i had a girlfriend. thats basically it. no drugs. no alcohol. no crimes committed.</p>
<p>so this is my life now. come home. eat. do hw. text sandy on my brothers phone for a little. then go to sleep. i cant stand it, one person i finally meet that i care for, and now theres no way to talk to her much less ever see her. and my parents said the only way for things to go bak to normal was for me to break up with her. they said choose us or her. they said even if i did break up with her, theyd keep monitor everythin in my life and keep tabs on everything that was going on. </p>
<p>even with the temptations of things goin bak to normal. i just couldnt. i couldnt break up with her. not like that.</p>
<p>i didnt get it but my parents made it crystal clear. their explanationL theres no need ofr a girlfriendright now, and that i should just concentrate on doin better in school. yea like 3 a-minuses 2 as and 1 a-plus carve out a spot at RCC for me. they told me that since they had told me beforehand that having a girlfriend was not an option, they said they were so disappointed in me. </p>
<p>then somehow the conversation shifted to how they were dissapointed in me to how i was such an embarrassment and how i was becoming such a burden. they said the only reason they moved to Rockland was so i could get a good education, not so i could go around messing around with girls. they said if i dont good grades what was the point? they todl me that if i couldnt get good grades they just couldnt give me any support anymore, that i was gonna be on my own. they were basically saying that without grades, i wasnt as imporant to them anymore.</p>
<p>both of them on two seperate occasions told me that what was point of them living in a place where they didnt fit in when i wasn't performing in school. my mom went as far as saying, well see how you act in the next few months, then maybe well move to a place where me and your dad can fit in and then you can do whatever the hell you want. my dad left me a stnading offer to leave. he said if you cant deal with the stuff me and your mom are doing, just leave, we dont care bcuz we still have your brother. they both said, theyll make sure not to raise my brother like me...</p>
<p>they act like ive crushed all their hopes and dreams
did i really mess up that bad?
for once in my cocky, arrogant life.
i am genuninely sayin
i need some help"</p>
<p>poor guy.
he's kinda annoying, but usually what keeps me awake during math.
for the past week I've been falling asleep....
haha</p>
<p>haha I wouldn't want my friends posting up my Facebook notes on a public forum...</p>
<p>My Asian parents don't give a crap about what I do in school. Their logic is they're not helping me pay for college (AT ALL), so I better work for whatever I want. I think it's a pretty good system.</p>
<p>"Their logic is they're not helping me pay for college (AT ALL), so I better work for whatever I want. I think it's a pretty good system."</p>
<p>That assumes high-school students are mature enough to make good decisions.</p>
<p>GUYS we could actually compose another ' Inheritance of Loss' book written by kiran desai which won the booker man prize last year!!!!!!!!!! Asain abroad book ...adult perspective tho....we cud write a student perspective.
Lots of interesting quotes from this thread too ... like Ivy or die (from gandhi's do or die slogan) and Yale or hotel maid....LOL ...
but i believe if any1 of all these ppl actually new their world around...as in wats happening... the poverty, the suffering ...u knw wat i mean the dark side...which still exists in the east.....u'd probably understand that u r waaaaaaaaaaaaay more fortunate than u can imagine, so USE THE OPPPORTUNITY -- frm asian</p>
<p>i never realised this thread had ancient roots lol 2005?? WTH</p>
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<p>First reaction: If they wanted him to have a good education, they would have moved to Scarsdale, and sent him to Hackley School.</p>