[Leica] Quiz time....

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Unfortunately not. We know a good number of twenties something Chinese 
American, Korean American, Filipino American, etc. in the Bay Area, and a 
number of them are suffering because of the undue expectations from 
parents, both father and mother. The Japanese Americans seem to suffer a 
little less I think because they are usually the 3rd or 4th generation 
rather than 1st or 2nd.

It is both economic security and family pride, which as you may know, 
"Face" is of utmost importance in some of these Asian cultures.

At 08:45 AM 2/3/2005, B. D. Colen wrote:

>Interesting - I was really startled when I first heard this, and thought
>it was an aberration - but now I've heard it enough times to know that
>it is not. My assumption is that Dad is selecting a career path for
>junior that Dad feels will guarantee economic security - but who knows.
>
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>Richard
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>
>
>There is a lot of truth to that. As the first college kid in the family,
>I
>totally chose my own destiny and career path (which I can't explain to
>them, it's tough to explain writing embedded compilers to folks who
>hardly
>speak English!) and my wife and I try hard not to push our kidz too
>hard.
>Fortunately (!) neither of our kidz is a genius type in math or music or
>
>any of the traditional things that Asians suppose to excel in.... It's a
>
>difficult fine line to tread as a parent.
>
>At 07:03 AM 2/3/2005, B. D. Colen wrote:
> >... there are a hell of allot of kids at MIT on
> >the undergrad level who are their because their parents have pushed
> >very hard for them to be there. I find this especially true with the
> >Asian and South Asian kids, some of whom have told me flat out that not
>
> >only were they 'told' to go to MIT, they are 'told' by their fathers
> >what to major in - and they often hate their majors.
>
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