<p>This is how my mother threatens me: </p>
<p>"You're going to have to stay home and go to COMMUNITY COLLEGE after high-school!" </p>
<p>Nothing wrong with JC's but honestly, it's ridiculous. :p </p>
<p>My parents don't have Ivy-or-Die way of thinking but certainly they do care... a lot. :)</p>
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<p>AHAHAHAHA</p>
<p>maybe, they're entitled to know about every intimate detail of your life because A) they provide for all your comforts in life, and B) they will finance your future education?</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>asian parents think they own every last cell of you :)</p>
<p>lol. EXTREME extremism with an extra extreme dose.</p>
<p>Yea I've always wondered about what Ivypoison said too. My Asian parents meet someone I can't go out and take My parents think dating is for finding the "special someone" I want to marry but I just want to go out and have a fun time. Asian parents also expect so much out of us because we're "asian" and that supposedly means we're smart.</p>
<p>Jo.InC.:</p>
<p>you forgot ExTrEmE</p>
<p>SonataX, just out of curiosity, are you Asian?</p>
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My parents think dating is for finding the "special someone"
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<p>Same here. Whenever my sibs bring over there bfs/gfs, my 'rents are ready to make the wedding plans.</p>
<p>I guess my parents are exceptions, they don't urge me to apply to any prestigious colleges, in fact, they don't even know my sat score, rank, classes I'm taking, etc... I feel sorry for you man.</p>
<p>enzo is just paranoid...lol, jk, but obviously.</p>
<p>diamond, what if, i'm so unstereotypical? even one of my essays shows how unstereo. i am. and i don't even have good scores/grades. w/in the range, but barely. </p>
<p>i truly wish i were good at math and excelled in music...</p>
<p>haha, don't forget:
CEO or garbage man?
I heard that one a LOT</p>
<p>yah......and i thought parents like mine are the only one of their kind!!!
sure they do have the same "90 below is an Asian failure" and "harvard or Mcdonalds" attitude. BUT guys and gals ....see throught them.......they are actually trying to motivate us (even though it doesnt work some time)
After all....in the end, it is we who are going to benefit, get high paying jobs, be popular.....
Asian parents are actually obsessed to see their kids as the TOPPER and nothing less!!!
for me,The best gift for father's day would be a 2400 on SAT and mother's day would be an all 'As' transcript!!!........lol!!
but hey...those stats will later get me into a good college!!</p>
<p>I don't really think my parents are as Asian as other's are. My Dad sort of hinted that I should apply to Wharton at UPenn during my Sophomore year, becasue he knew I had a passion for business, but as far as that goes he never demanded anything. However, they always wanted me to apply myself whole-heartedly in whatever I faced and never under-achieve. Luckily I got into Wharton and my parents are really proud. It should give Dad something to brag about around his friends. lol.</p>
<p>Asian Parents are Great, at least mine are. ;-)</p>
<p>lucky: </p>
<p>My dad: What's Cornell? What's UPenn? What's Dartmouth? etc.etc.</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>my parents, though asian, totally rock
they told me i could go wherever i wanted to!
i was surprised, even when my brother goes to an ivy league school, they never tell me the whole "follow ur brother's footsteps" crap, they just tell me that theyd be proud if i moved out of the house by the time i hit 25</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>my parents: What's Princeton? What's UPenn? What's Berkeley? Are they good? Get in them then!</p>
<p>How could your Asian parents not have heard of UC Berkeley? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Yeah I'm lucky in that only my Dad really acts Asian. He's the one who thinks UPenn/Columbia/Cornell are too "low." blah blah blah....My mother, on the other hand, grew up in a different Asian household. The girls were not helped along with education, yet she worked her butt off and got into a really tough college back in Asia. She had to do it all herself, without any emotional support from her parents. So now, she is awesome to me. She just wants me to succeed in life and be able to make my own choices, which she will support. I'm lucky she's there to balance out my Dad. My dad was/is so devastated when I told him I wasn't going to apply to MIT or plan on doing premed anywhere. He says he supports my prelaw plans but my mom says that inside he's still disappointed. Thank god I have her! At least my parents would never force me to do anything...although it irritates the heck out of me that they refer to all non-techie degrees as "English" or "Liberal Arts." As if a math major is doing anything more "useful" than a political science major!</p>
<p>flopsy: </p>
<p>mainland chinese parents know four colleges, harvard, yale, stanford, MIT. my parents know five b/c they work in JHP.</p>
<p>o another one, JHP or hooker. yep they said that. classic..lol</p>
<p>still i love them dearly :)</p>
<p>LOL HOOKER THATS HILARIOUS.</p>
<p>My parents aren't East Asian, they're Indian. They don't really view colleges as the "HARVARD OR GARBAGEMAN" job scenario thing. They view it as, "What a disappointment, you didn't get into the best college. What are we going to tell the relatives, they have never heard of this Upenn business."</p>