Every time I see a thread titled something like "My parents are so fvcking stupid," I immediately think that the OP must be Asian. I guess it's because I went through the same phase when I was in my early teens and I saw my brother go through the same thing. A lot of Asian kids grow up in wealthier neighborhoods, and maybe it has to do some with social mumbo-jumbo like a lack of cultural identity or whatever. I don't really know. I do I know that I eventually grew out of it, and now I respect and admire my parents a lot for what they've done for my brother and me.
I was subjected to some of the regular Asian parent demands like Saturday school, extra homework during weekends and breaks, As are normal while Bs are bad, comparisons to impossibly smart schoolmates, etc. When I really think about it though, my parents were emotionally supportive, and I think that most Asian parents are in their own ways.
A lot of Asian kids just spend too much time trying to fit into American culture and don't realize that our parents do support us, but not in the obvious "American" ways that we see on TV. I've found that a lot of younger Asian kids (my brother and myself included) are embarassed by our parents' lack of understanding of American culture and by their dogmatic adherence to traditional Asian culture. What we don't realize is that our parents get embarassed too, but they suck it up so that we can grow up in a nicer environment than they did.
