You think Asian parents are bad?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Asian mom, “You say you doing good, I say no! Compared to the children in China you are years behind. I learned the math you’re learning [precalculus] in third grade! My family’s children [still in China] are all so successful, but look at how my children turned out.”</p>

<p>or when I tell her to lay off the criticism :" What criticism? In China, this is how everyone is. Ayah, I suffered through the Communist Revolution when I was your age! You, you are just ungrateful. I treat you so nice."</p>

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<p>i’m russian too!
and i completely relate to your woes</p>

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<p>That sounds exactly like my parents. “I lived through segregation in 1950’s Alabama (my father is very old), was the first in my family to attend college despite the fact that I went to a one room schoolhouse (not true, but he says it) so that you could have all the opportunities I never did.” And he always throws in the “I almost died in Vietnam” bit.</p>

<p>And my mother pulls out the picture of my great great great grandmother, who was born a slave and got a degree from Hampton. Then she Catholic guilts me into doing stuff.</p>

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<p>Try having parents who expect you to be a clone of themselves.
My mother told me the other day, “Hmm… No, don’t get a doctorate. Go to medical school so you can carry out my unfulfilled dreams of being a doctor.”</p>

<p>:(</p>

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<p>I’m Russian.
My Parents are pretty easy going, they don’t care about my grades because they expect me to do well.</p>

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<p>^^^ And what would they say if you didn’t do well?</p>

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<p>@wildlyhandsome Hahaha! That’s sounds exactly like my parents! I remember asking for help on Pre-calculus from my brothers and my dad saw and he was like “Bah! Children in Vietnam learn this in grade school.”</p>

<p>Oh, here’s my “favorite,” the “You know, your <strong>(insert relative)</strong>, she/he is a doctor/lawyer/pharmacist and makes <strong>(insert ridiculous amount of $$$)</strong>, why aren’t you like that?”</p>

<p>-_-</p>

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<p>I have Asian parents to.</p>

<p>They’ve never said no. (For anything I’ve wanted to do.)</p>

<p>Anytime I ask for money, they fork it over. (I don’t ask too often though)</p>

<p>Never set a curfew.</p>

<p>Let me raid their drinks.</p>

<p>They just assume I’ll get into a good college.</p>

<p>Did I mention the free drinks?</p>

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<p>I think you meant “I have Asian parents too”
Its actually pretty funny because my moms asian and my dads white but my moms the athletic one and my dad is the smart one. my mom just depended on her volleyball to get into college, while my dad went to upenn. the irony is amusing.</p>

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<p>TastyGuy – Not true.</p>

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<p>What’s even worse are African parents because in addition to that, you’re expected to be #1 in every class at all times otherwise you’re not taking full advantage of the opportunities that your billion starving cousins back home don’t have.
Not to mention the constant threats of being shipped back home.</p>

<p>Ha, I get the movie theater thing too.
But I still love my parents :)</p>