<p>Do you guys ever get the feeling that the parents of one of your friends is HOPING you fail because their own child is so inadequate?...</p>
<p>Yes, actually some have hoped I do so. And show it in their face.</p>
<p>Sadly, I just rose above.</p>
<p>^
Elaborate?</p>
<p>Well, I’ve had friends whose parents I’ve met before.</p>
<p>Some of them were asian. Some stereotypes included.</p>
<p>When they ask me questions and ask of my aspirations, I notice that they entirely change, and have a little bit of jealousy in them.</p>
<p>Some just entirely get a bad attitude with me, and I can tell some of like it when I mentioned I have a small slip-up, like a B on a test.</p>
<p>However, when they ask how I’m doing, and I’m doing well, they just end up showing they want me to fail.</p>
<p>I did some extra credit Bio project in ninth grade with a friend, we made a big foam model of a neuron or something. We did it at her house. As I was leaving, her mom suddenly ran downstairs, and asked me what I was doing for <em>my</em> project. I said that X friend and I were sharing the project, that we’d cleared it with the teacher. She completely freaked out on me, said that I didn’t need the credit anyway and should’ve used my own house to make the project. That it “wasn’t fair” of me. I just agreed with her and left.</p>
<p>X friend’s mom also always became noticeably angry and passive aggressive whenever her dad asked me how I was doing in school, etc. I think that it bothered her knowing that some poor kid with bad parents was doing just as well, if not better, than the kid she dragged to a different museum exhibit every weekend. She never had any issue hearing about kids doing well from families as similarly well off as hers.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the area I live in is sparsely populated with Asians (I know, I’m stereotyping rather heavily). And the Asians that my parents and I do know (from piano/violin lessons) are either not too Amy Chua-like (Google that name if you don’t catch the reference) or don’t really socialize with us.</p>
<p>Though my mom did joke with me about how my 2400 was going to ruin so many Asian kids’ lives in my area (hehe).</p>
<p>Usually all my friends’ (ahem… read Asian friends) parents take note of my achievements/ECs/grades/SATs to better plot my downfall… and yet their children are so much more hard-working than me and make better grades than I do because I’m a slacker Asian.</p>
<p>In my neighborhood, even if you’re on top, you have to totally and utterly crush all forms of competition in order to stay on top. So paranoid… geesh.</p>
<p>Lol :D</p>
<p>This is why my parents NEVER socialize with other Asian parents outside of work lol. No one knows nor cares what I do. :)</p>