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Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
My mama and daddy wanted more for me than 892374928374 kids and a big house (that's the measure of success where I'm from), and I'm glad that they dreamed for bigger and better things for me and that I took advantage of that.
But that's just me.
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That sounds very different compared to Asian families in Continental US, Canada and the rest of the world. Here, if you don't have a degree, you're pretty much a disgrace to the family--success is measured by where you go to school. I have a cousin in Hong Kong who wants to major in the liberal arts. When she was going through the application process last year, I had suggested to her that if she wanted to major in that, then she might want to consider smaller, liberal arts colleges. Her parents, however, were set on her attending larger, well known schools, such as the Ivies or schools like the University of Toronto or UBC in Canada. Schools like Middlebury and Amherst were pretty much out of the question!
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