Seeing too many red stars?

<p><em>sigh</em>. the college application process hath brought so many white strands to my hair.</p>

<p>And smashed you to a pulp. Do you look like a passion fruit, in a pulp with random strands of hair poking out?
I will be unstressed...the freedom of not having to go a top college and having complete reign barring any future sickness which may change my mother's mind.</p>

<p>Ok there was this joke about my really old English teacher last year. So this student goes up to her and says, “You should walk with us on the stage at graduation”, and the teacher goes “why?” Because you’re a SENIOR, the student said.</p>

<p>I only have two stars...now three. Haven't been on much today.......</p>

<p>kman - it's hard not to feel some pressure if you are the first one, on both sides of your families, to attend college in America :)</p>

<p>btw that is a 'flattering' description you have there. though I don't know what a passionfruit looks like.</p>

<p>I only have 5 I think. :p</p>

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Why I am happy not to be an immigrant...I got enough of it from my father's immigrant co-workers who were angry after finding out I took up Chinese, because their second-generation kids did not want to learn the language having been in America for so long.</p>

<p>8 stars... yeah, I'm a junior, you'll have to put up with another year of me...</p>

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Why I am happy not to be an immigrant...I got enough of it from my father's immigrant co-workers who were angry after finding out I took up Chinese, because their second-generation kids did not want to learn the language having been in America for so long.

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It's bizzare. People practically gawk because I can actually speak/read/write Chinese. What surprise.</p>

<p>No, Martha, you are welcome; you put some of the 'life' back in the title 'High School Life'. Otherwise the forum would have really fallen apart and into the other sections of hell like WAMC.</p>

<p>purrli, aren't you Chinese though? Why would it be surprising?</p>

<p>It's surprising, because I AM Chinese :D. All the other Chinese kids here DON'T know how to speak it.</p>

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All the other Chinese kids here DON'T know how to speak it.

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Where do you live? Everyone here knows Chinese one way or another.</p>

<p>Here we have the uptight controlling types at work-I am very glad that none of them contacted me to figure out how to interest (or force-feed) their ancient culture down their kids' throats. I am already seeing the result of what has happened: incredibly angry Asian people. And there are a lot here.</p>

<p>MA. My area is about 4% Asian but most are 'old' immigrants who came over in the 70's, 80's, etc. Most of Asian kids try very hard to be preppy or ghetto to be interested in their ancestral culture.</p>

<p>Preppy, ghetto, and Chinese. Interesting. I could understand if they were any other East Asian ethnicity, but Chinese are not one to have standout identities; they were isolated for so long.</p>

<p>I think it's because they're all cooped up in the well-off middle class suburbs and in need of a persona that's cooler than the typical "asian nerd", so everyone tries to be white, black, or even Japanese/Korean. it's an interesting phenomena.</p>

<p>Why can't they develop their own 'cool' and culture? The Chinese have had so much success with this over the years (the whole dynastic system); one would think that any gen-1 Chinese would have instilled this in the gen-2 offspring along with all the other stuff handed over.</p>

<p>0.0000005% Asian in my town...</p>

<p>Hmm.... my father actually despises the dynastic system. When we visited the Forbidden Palace, he thought the place ranked of centuries of oppression: such as the imperial harem where hundreds of women were forced to become concubines to one man and never know love; the eunuch system to prevent other men from taking away the emperor's women; the ruthlessness and lawlessness. etc. He thought Rome was way more civilized. Maybe it's because he's a product of June 4.</p>