You know your parents are Asian when..

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Okay, so since I'm a girl it would be normal for me to shave my leg hair right. I normally wear long jeans and usually my leg hair isn't visible. But I get nervous whenever I wear swimsuits or shorts so I asked my mom if I could please get her PERMISSION to let me shave my legs. She said no. Because apparently she still believes that shaving my legs would make them all coarse and thick and visible (the point of shaving is to get rid of it, duh) and that I shouldn't shave until I have a baby (***.)</p>

<p>I asked her again today. She said no, obviously. I told her literally every single girl I've met has been shaving their legs since puberty. Classic reply:</p>

<p>"Everybody else has a 4.0 GPA, why don't you?" (I got a B in math =/ )</p>

<p>i love my family.</p>

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<p>Bad logic is the most important part of an Asian parent’s parenting.</p>

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<p>Hahahahahahahah</p>

<p>Just shave - how is your mom gonna know? Ask her, would she rather have a daugher with normal legs, or a daughter with grass and moss growing out of her tree trunks?</p>

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<p>You know your parents are Asian when… you are Asian yourself.</p>

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<p>Haha, sorry for the odd/somewhat gross topic. Spur of the moment?</p>

<p>Sigh, what oppression. XD</p>

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<p>lol.
Same here. I had to beg for her permission, she wouldn’t let me shave my legs until I turn eighteen. So I did research and told her that shaving your legs doesn’t actually make the hair thicker; it just seems thicker because the hair is cut straight across.</p>

<p>You know your parents are Asian when you are obliged to eat white rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.</p>

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<p>^ WORDDD.</p>

<p>btw. I even told my mom that, like even showing the web pages. She says it’s all a lie. Sigh. XD</p>

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<p>Honey, just shave. JUST DO IT.
I’m asian, and even though my parents still are irked when I buy new disposable razors (“now you have to shave all the time because your hair grows back even thicker”), I just went for it back in…8th grade. Yes, hair grows back often coarser and darker, but that’s the point of shaving yours legs again…Lol also, my mom always points out that she never has to shave but she doesn’t even have any leg hair! My dad jokes that American food has too much nutrition/“steroids” in it and therefore my brother (who is tall for an asian) and I (just some leg hair is apparently not-so-asian?) are so “american” because of it hahaha hmm. Anyways…
It honestly won’t be a big deal. What are they really going to do to you if you start shaving?
Ultimately it’s your choice. Good luck! :]</p>

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<p>^It’s true that there’s more hormones in the American diet.</p>

<p>Ask your mom if she shaves, and if that doesn’t work then just do it.</p>

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<p>Ask your mom if she shaves, and if that doesn’t work then just do it.</p>

<p>^ She did. Then she got pregnant with me. Now she doesn’t have leg hair. Hence she tells me not to consider shaving until I have a baby. XD</p>

<p>Yeah, I will//am sorta but the fact that my mom said that was pretty effing funny XD</p>

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<p>You know you’re parents are Asian when You are too much of a wuss to defy them.</p>

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<p>"You know your parents are Asian when you are obliged to eat white rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. “”</p>

<p>that is not true…
My parents are Asian, I was raised in China, and We eat rice like once a week.</p>

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<p>You know your parents are Asian when they are disappointed you’re going to Penn and not Princeton…“Why do you think we moved to Princeton all the way from NYC in the first place!!!” You’d think this would come up in conversation when you decide to apply ED to a school. <em>sigh</em></p>

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<p>my mom used to not let me wear deodorant -_-
my best friend’s mom still won’t let her wear deodorant</p>

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<p>You know your parents are Asian when they are disappointed that you didn’t get into Harvard with a full scholarship or expected you to go to one of those prestigious ivys with full scholarship.</p>

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<p>Rofl, just shave your legs. What are they going to do, beat you?</p>

<p>Oh…</p>

<p>Well, in that case…</p>

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<p>I’ve got a solution.
Tell your mom you want to wax them. Yes, it hurts like a *****, but on the bright side, you get smooth legs for a month =), AND, that solves the whole coarse, thicker hair problem your mom was pointing out.</p>

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<p>I think this is pretty funny. I love this thread.</p>

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<p>i second the waxing idea. but if you do decide to shave, how will she even notice? unless she demands a look at your legs every so often … which would be pretty awkward.</p>

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<p>^ ■■■■■
my mom refused to let me shave untill I was in grade 7.
and I was begging, and complaining, and because of that, she wanted to check my legs once a week during the year of grade 6
yeah, my mom is weird.</p>