My Asian Parents Are Not Crazy! Seriously...

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>This is to all students and friends who called my Asian parents crazy throughout the years and trashed me for a high SAT, GPA, for not going anywhere, besides school, material stuff, saying it's because of my Asian parents:</p>

<p>The people who made me study for the SAT/ACT in 9th Grade and every grade after that was my guidance counselors. They made my entire class buy the SAT prep online in 9th Grade. They were the ones that were talking about college to me when I was 7th Grade and every grades after that. (My Asian parents still don't know what the SAT/ACT are, even though I took them already.)</p>

<p>My GPA is high, not because my parents make me study and do well in school. It's because I have heard too many teachers say education will lead a better life for everyone.</p>

<p>My parents think community college is good. </p>

<p>My parents do not know what the Ivy leagues are.</p>

<p>My parents want me to go to a school that is near Syracuse, NY. They really don't care if it's the best or the worst. They just care that it is near home.</p>

<p>My parents never yelled at me once when I failed both my math midterm and final in 8th Grade.</p>

<p>My parents think that being a computer forensics investigator (my dream job) is awesome.</p>

<p>My parents: Rice is good, but Ashley should eat more American fast food, because Ashley needs to gain more weight. Ashley is way too skinny.</p>

<p>I once cried that too many people were making fun of me in high school and that I wanted to drop out of college prep school. They never really cared.</p>

<p>The reason that I do not go anywhere by myself or with my friends is because that I don't want to go. It's not that my parents don't let me go anywhere. I like quiet places, and the mall, parties at friends' houses, etc. aren't really that quiet. </p>

<p>My clothes are all from Wal-Mart, Target, the Salvation Army, and JCPenney to be the best, not because my parents are cheap, but I don't think it is necessary to buy all of those expensive, but non quality clothes. Too many of my classmates have told stories of clothes from A&F, Aero, Hollister, etc. being ripped from only two or three times in the wash.</p>

<p>My parents never brought me a cell phone, Ipod, MP3, or anything high tech, besides this computer, because I never really agreed for them to get me one.</p>

<p>They don't really control my life. Well, besides, they want me to marry an Asian dude when I grow up. Plus, I can't date until I graduate from college.</p>

<p>Maybe this is seriously me. Or maybe my parents are not crazy after all.</p>

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<p>I wish my parents were like yours. I’m Asian too but they pressure me to do good in school and on the SAT.</p>

<p>Oh and I agree with you about getting things for cheap. I’m rather frugal when it comes to buying new things.</p>

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<p>lol I bet you can’t say that to your friends’/peers’ faces. you come in a forum with complete anonymity and act like a bad@ss; it’s not that hard to do.</p>

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<p>alright. I am really really sorry. I need to stop trashing people. Like you said, I should stop being a *** ***. I hope everyone who comes across this forgives me.</p>

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<p>Wow, you pretty much defined my life (except for the high GPA and SAT/ACT thing - that is still up for grabs).</p>

<p>But for me, it’s not so much that my mom doesn’t care. But she’s ALWAYS busy with something, so I guess she’s not as involved as the typical CC parent. I admit she isn’t too familiar with the whole college system/SATS and thinks the Community College is a decent option. She never really pressures me to fall into the hardcore study mode as other parents or she doesn’t see the point of taking AP classes when you could get by with honors. She’s doesn’t ask me too much about school life. With that said, she tends to make a bigger deal of things that mean very little to nothing to me - that’s where the crazy part comes in.</p>

<p>I’m gonna refrain from elaborating too much before it gets redundant. She goes freak out my future, though, because I tend to be a little nebulous about where I want to be in life (my fault there). But the situation for me though is that my mom is a single mother, who has to work almost 70 hours or more simply to get by and I get to barely see her at home. That’s where the whole “must-do-well-in-school” mentality kicks in for me. I had to watch my mom struggle (and I still do) for as long as I can remember. I guess it’s a different ball game for me, but there is a lot of more at stake.</p>

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<p>My parents sound like your’s, infact, strangely exactly like your’s. But only one of them is Indian or Asian. </p>

<p>I only eat fast food, so I don’t need to eat more, but if all I ate was rice they’d say the same to me.</p>

<p>Straight C/D student through most of 6th and 7th grade, parents never cared. </p>

<p>I don’t want to do forensics, and my parents wouldn’t find any job especially cool, but wouldn’t object to anything.</p>

<p>Oh, and I don’t live in Syracuse.</p>