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I tutored an Asian girl whose family owned a Chinese restaurant. They were willing to pay out $100 for a tutoring session when I was fine doing it for free. And the lass told me about how gungho her parents were with her schoolwork, to the point where they were actively monitoring and optimizing her diet since she was a swimmer. I had to respect the dedication and investment they were putting into their kid.

This also reminds me of an Indian buddy of mine back in uni, immigrated from India to the US for college, he told me that Indians are all told at a young age; investment banker, medical doctor, engineer, scientist CHOOSE ONE.

Prestoff posted...

I'll speak for myself and other Asians that I know that are making decent money, but most of them are from East Asian connections like Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. I'm Vietnamese and my parents had to do a lot of foot kissing just to help me with my career. Luckily I managed to get into a pretty well known CPA firm here in Los Angeles from the connections I made at the accounting club I joined (the Senior Manager at the time was impressed I managed to keep a 3.5 GPA while being a full time manager and a full time student while graduating College debt free). And let me tell you, my years in College were not fun at all.

This makes total sense. My sister went into the medical field so my dad was sort of able to help her get opportunities as he's also a medical doctor. Since I opted for tech, I was shit out of luck since my parents had no clue about the field and didn't have much of a network with people in the field. I'll have to start considering investing in a network as this is a major factor in finding and maintaining success.

IllegalAlien posted...

significant amounts of racism in this topic, but it's okay because it's at yellow people

Just what are your intentions here? Are we not allowed to discuss the differences in cultures?