<p>Currently I had horrible grades, this girl in my ''regular'' spanish class asked if I get straight A's...... It happpens every year....So I say no, I actually have all B's and a C..(I am killing myself about these grades, btw) And the girl saids, "OMG, thats still gooood, omg, like, seriously, come on....Does your parents hit you, if you get bad grades?"</p>
<p>Usually Asian parents don't hit you if you get bad grades (some will)...but I am willing to say if an typical asian kid got a C in one of his classes...he will be in hell everyday he gets home =)</p>
<p>lol my friends all think that i'm in the top 10. I'm still in the top 10%, but the look of shock at rank 46 (gasp) is always priceless.</p>
<p>my parents just harass me. they know i'm trying though, so they stop.</p>
<p>My mom would just take everything I enjoy away (computer, tv, ipod) if I got a B. The only time my mom threatened me was when she was talking about earrings one time. She said she'd yank my ear right off if she saw me with one (even though I don't want one at all anyway..).</p>
<p>^lol im not asian, but my mom said that if i get an earring, then she might as well buy me a dress and make me grow my hair out so she can put a nice bow in it.</p>
<p>My parents actually stopped doing that. Now they just toss the report card at me without looking at it, under the assumption that I did well.</p>
<p>I don't want to think about what would happen if I got a B, though.</p>
<p>I've already warned my mom that my most at-risk grade this semester is PE... :P So hopefully she won't be too shocked if I do end up with a B.</p>
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Why is every asian kid interrogated about their grades?
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In this case, you would use "his" (singular pronoun) instead of "their". Asians could benefit from proper English study.</p>
<p>@ milkmagn</p>
<p>"his" isn't politically or socially correct. There are females in this world you know ;). I think "Why are all Asian kids interrogated about their grades" would be better.</p>
<p>"their" is actually officially grammatically correct in British English, I believe. It's unofficially grammatically correct in American English. Neutral-gender possessive is the way to go. Don't be a pedant.</p>
<p>"his" is perfectly fine, though. It's grammatically correct, and yes, also refers to females.</p>
<p>whoa..."his" also refers to females...? I never knew that O.o</p>
<p>Of course it does, in that context. It's just grammar. ^^</p>
<p>If we make a sentence such as "If one [does something], then he will likely [do something]", our "one" is not constrained only to males, so if we choose a female to be our "one", then "he" is referring to our representative female. We're just used to "he" referring to males, so we think that that's it's only purpose.</p>
<p>"ima go CPS on you!!" :D</p>
<p>@ phuriku</p>
<p>I remember my English teacher telling me we should use "he or she" to be grammatically correct...</p>
<p>"he" is already grammatically correct (and the "most" grammatically correct out of all options). You only use "he and she" if you want to remain grammatically correct without offending people who don't understand grammar. If you want to be semi-correct and progressive, you use "they".</p>
<p>I'm going to go out on a limb and say that your English teacher was a female.</p>
<p>apparently "traditionally, "he" would have been the automatic choice, but in the past several years, some people have objected to this one-sided view of things"...yea I copied this off a grammar book xD..and basically, there is no easy solution. But yea, you were right, "he" does work, I never knew that</p>
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In this case, you would use "his" (singular pronoun) instead of "their". Asians could benefit from proper English study.
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<p>I've always used his/her</p>
<p>Why is every asian kid interrogated about his/her grades?</p>
<p>His/her is so unwieldy. I use "their" in speech and "his" in writing. I don't like when others use the singular "they" in writing, but usually I don't notice.</p>
<p>My parents don't have to interrogate my about grades. I just tell them. If I got a B, they would probably ban me from doing anything but homework. In that case, I'd try to hide it from them, but it would be inevitable that they'd find out.</p>
<p>Seriously, getting away from the English grammar debate, I think Asians are always seen as super-geniuses or something like that. I get interrogated about my grades almost every week, and someone oncec thought I had skipped 2 grades. I mean I do well, but not that well.</p>
<p>My parents are actually a bit more relaxed than the average asian parent. They know I work on my own, but I never let them know that I got about 3 Bs in my HS career.... -_-</p>