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Originally posted by DaisyKLP
</hijack> sorry to hijack this thread for a minute, but I feel like I have to. Taualumna, I find that your comments about immigrants and the relationships between immigrant parents and their children are a little off- color. I come from a family of immigrants. My family moved here from Russia when I was 7 and a half. We literally had $2 to our name. I went to private schools for 8 years of my life and am in a private college now. Everything that I have, my parents had to work hard for. They never told me that I had to go out and go to a certain school and major in a certain field so that I could get a high-paying job and support them. The school I go to, is not the one that they would have wanted me to go, but they're fine with my choice. They always ask me if I'm happy with my major and if I want to switch it to something that interests me more. The reason I'm saying this is because I feel like you don't fully understand the dynamic of an immigrant family in America. We don't all tell our kids how they should live their lives. </end hijack>
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Daisy,
YOUR immigrant parents may not have told you what to study or do, but MANY OTHERS do so. I know this from personal experience. My second cousin's mother practically forced her into engineering. A guy I knew when I was a kid had a choice of schools and majors, but there were certain majors that he wasn't supposed to touch. Including one or two that he may very well have wanted to take! I have relatives who have commented on my history major as well. Maybe it's different for Russian families, but the pressure to study certain subjects is certainly there in Asian (particularily Chinese) families. I know that it is the case for some Jewish families too.