Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ain't that the truth. Every year I have students in my MIT science writing class who say that no only are they at MIT because it's where their father insisted they go, but they have selected the major they were told to select - even though they hate what they are doing. It's really, really sad to see. B. D. On 7/31/05 10:03 PM, "Kenneth Frazier" <kennybod@mac.com> wrote: > images@infoave.net (Tina Manley) wrote: > >> It's about the importance of faith. > > And, I suspect, at least among my South Asian friends, it's also about > the greater weight attached to family, as opposed to our Western notions > of the primacy of the individual. What the family wants and chooses > takes precedence over what the individual might want. > > Ken