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#3 Academics

Posted February 15th, 2008 by Peter · 9 Comments
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Asian kids are always pressured to do well in School. This means not only doing better than their Asian peers, but kids twice their age. All asian kids will do one of the following: 1) Play an instrument: Be it piano, guitar, or violin (strongly preferred). 2) Study math at an accelerated rate: Asian kids are supposed to take Calculus as middle schoolers. It’s their right! 3) Participate in extracurricular activities:I heard that Jamar was president of Key Club, Student Alliance, Future Doctors of America! You lead a club and you too will make me proud!

parentsThings like this obviously leave no time for asian kids to be normal. There is little time for sleep, let alone hang out. “Dating isn’t mentioned in the Asian household, and girls only come up as a topic of discussion if they’re horrifically smart and if your parents want to compare you to them. If dating is allowed, of course, the girlfriend must be Asian and must be smart.” -Bitter Asian Men

When all is said and done, however, Asian kids do succeed. They become dentists, pharmacists, doctors. Most importantly, all those inherited traits are paid back to their parents in the form of a nice home and high salary that they can brag about to their salon friends. Asians never put their parents into nursing homes due to the fact that they inherit all their brains from their parents and grandparents. To simply state it: They love their parents a lot. Why wouldn’t they? If you wish you could do the Asian thing, click here.









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9 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Dude!!! // Feb 15, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    You guys gotta post your Purikura. Mine’s the best!

  • 2 jj // Feb 25, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    man, this one makes me feel guilty since I went to college majoring in dance and art. I hated school. Now I teach dance and I’ve worked in the animation field . I love what I do, and I’m proud of the kids now who are really into dancing, crew, hip hop the rest. We really can dance!!!!!

  • 3 Chinkygirl // Feb 26, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    i guess my parents weren’t like the bunch…they were focused on me washing the dishes

  • 4 P // Mar 7, 2008 at 10:56 am

    academics are a strange bunch…
    http://www.stuffacademicslike.com

  • 5 johnk // Mar 8, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    5) Because Asian people without a college degree have shitty jobs, like a waiter at a Chinese restaurant in a tiny town, and you don’t see Asians doing the well-paid less-thinking jobs like construction.

  • 6 Amy // Mar 10, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    hahaa :), this is almost exactly what I’d say if i was to write it. Except for part of point (3) though. Most Asian parents I know would rather their kids spend all their time on Maths than participating in activities like sports, dancing, singing, plays, outdoors, etc.
    So maybe that should be split into 2 sub-categories. Academic-related clubs (such as the ones you mentioned) are ok. But not “fun” clubs.

  • 7 YASPY Chick // Mar 12, 2008 at 7:49 am

    Academic related clubs only? OMG. Band was THE club of choice for all the foreign Asian students at my high school (followed by badminton and choir).

  • 8 CNM // Apr 12, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    I always hated those extracurricular math classes. Maybe Kumon is the reason I ended up getting two liberal arts degrees instead of anything useful, lol.

  • 9 kc // Nov 1, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    “Dating isn’t mentioned in the Asian household, and girls only come up as a topic of discussion if they’re horrifically smart and if your parents want to compare you to them. If dating is allowed, of course, the girlfriend must be Asian and must be smart.” -Bitter Asian Men

    lol that made me laugh, but i’ve heard it way more than once from some of my friends. I think asian parents’ focus on education and all is great, but sometimes they compare their kids a little too much maybe? ;)

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