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i can totally relate with what you wrote above, my mother was exactly the same
Ye, man that **** was irritating.i can totally relate with what you wrote above, my mother was exactly the same
Anyone here from LA/SGV area? If you guys are you should try out a chinese joint called Newport Seafood.
EddieDoyers
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- Apr 3, 2012
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lol that place is more Vietnamese if anythingAnyone here from LA/SGV area? If you guys are you should try out a chinese joint called Newport Seafood.
But their lobster
really? their lobster, kung pau chicken, and beef lock lac...insane...lol that place is more Vietnamese if anything
But their lobster
- Sep 12, 2014
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More times Asian parents only want you to succeed so that you can have a better life than theirs tho.
- Nov 24, 2009
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That’s applicable for most immigrant parents.
It was annoying that they only care how you do in math and science classes. Just because i’m Asian doesn’t mean i’ll be good at math. Actually got good at it in college somehow c
- Jul 22, 2012
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Pretty much.
My mom tried to stress high grades on me, but didn't do anything to help me achieve that level. I had to push myself (by help of my dad's threats lol) to make sure that I passed and graduated.
I learned after college that my dad was hard on me and my siblings because he dropped out of HS and used to roll with the gangs in SF lol. So all the times he was being the biggest jerk in my life, he was simply pushing me to work hard and be successful.
- Sep 11, 2012
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My high school was 60% Asian. I think they had Mandarin but most of my Chinese friends spoke Cantonese.
- May 15, 2005
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My parents didn't speak English in the 80's so my brother at 5 years old signed himself up for school lol!
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I have some resentment for my dad for the way he brought me up. Forced to study, put me down when I succeeded in sports as it has nothing to do with books, hated that I didn’t wanna be a doctor and stopped talking to me for a year when I dropped biology etc. as I get older and moved to a few different countries though, I can appreciate that his intentions were for me to have a better life even though his methods were wrong. I respect the **** out of his hustle, moving us out of Taiwan for us to learn English and somehow feeding all of us by himself.
- Nov 17, 2013
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I used to resent my parents for the pressure they put on me.
I'm 26yo now and appreciate their intentions. I'm very close to them. My mom is the pusher and philanthropist. My dad is the stoic ex-military guy who everyone loves. I'm truly their son.
I grew up poor. I'll die before I get back. I want all of my family in Lambos.
I'm 26yo now and appreciate their intentions. I'm very close to them. My mom is the pusher and philanthropist. My dad is the stoic ex-military guy who everyone loves. I'm truly their son.
I grew up poor. I'll die before I get back. I want all of my family in Lambos.
- Nov 24, 2009
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I’ll push my kids to do well in school but I won’t yell in their face until they cry because they struggle to do math hw like my dad used to do when I was in 2nd / 3rd grade. I hear about kids in korea and japan committing suicide because the pressure to get into top high schools and colleges is so high. Glad I never had to experience that but it’s sad that not getting into the right school has them thinking their lives are over.
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I feel like I'm in anomaly in that my parents never pressured me or even really disciplined me. I was spoiled af. I'm the youngest of 6 so I think they had softened up by then.
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Same. They expect me to go to school and graduate but other than that they let me do whatever I want
- Sep 10, 2011
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Same, I had it easier than a bunch of other Asian kids I knew 
- Sep 11, 2012
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Very similar with me. I walked into kindergarten with no English experience. I was 4 turning 5. I was born and raised in CA.
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Same, I had it easier than a bunch of other Asian kids I knew
Me too lmao, phew
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Props Stephanie I had no clue you were Azn
I'm as Asian as it can get: I'm Vietnamese-American who married Japanese dude.
- Aug 21, 2013
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My dad was EXTREMELY hard on me academically and put intense pressure on me to go to medical school because he was a doctor in the Philippines. Even though I know he had good intentions, his delivery wasn't the greatest. I used to resent him like CRAZY for that and it me depressed a few years ago.
On the bright side, it toughened me up a whole lot. I used his threats as motivation to prove him wrong
He calmed down ALOT when I finished college with latin honors. I think he realized that I can be successful in my own right, even if I didn't pursue the path he wanted me to.
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Steph is the same ethnicity as me.
Fair warning: I'm sliding in her PMs.
Fair warning: I'm sliding in her PMs.
- Feb 22, 2012
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My dad was EXTREMELY hard on me academically and put intense pressure on me to go to medical school because he was a doctor in the Philippines. Even though I know he had good intentions, his delivery wasn't the greatest. I used to resent him like CRAZY for that and it me depressed a few years ago.
On the bright side, it toughened me up a whole lot. I used his threats as motivation to prove him wrong
I got yelled at by my parents so much when it came to education that my angry Japanese former boss/current mentor yelling at me had zero effect. All the white people working under him quit
he asked me "I'm surprised you never quit or broke down" and I told him that I heard 1000x worse from my mom and dad for 18 years I got all types of threats of beatings, deportations, boarding schools, etc...of course they were BSing but it worked in getting me to study instead of messing around 24/7 like all my other friends
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My dad beat my a** over an A minus. He asked me what that smudge behind the A grade was and I told him it's a minus sign. He lost it. I was grounded for two weeks and told I lost my privileges to go out with friends until I brought my grades back up. Zero tolerance in my house growing up. 
