Family Expectation good or bad?

One major Asian American stereotype is that the parents of Asian American children are extremely strict. With conversing and researching how this stereotype came about with my class, we realized that it is because Asian culture always stresses honor, whether it be for your family or for yourself. They also automatically have an expectance of their child that they will become successful and hardworking. And anything short of that is considered a failure. Some might think that is fine, others dont. However, the argument becomes real when the children commit suicide because of the high expectation from their parents. This was a discussion posted on the internet a couple years ago......

It’s a tragedy: suicides of Asian-American students at Cornell, MIT, UC Berkeley, Cal Tech, and other universities.

Last year, psychologists at UC Davis released research findings that family conflict is a major risk factor for suicide in Asian Americans. An August 19, 2008 Time Magazine article titled, “A Family Suicide Risk in U.S. Asians?” contained the following excerpt:

“Among students…the problem may have to do with family expectations. ‘Although we don’t have good statistics yet, we believe that many Asian American students are prone to feeling depressed over a lack of achievement,’ says [Stanley Sue, a professor of psychology and Asian American studies at UC Davis]. Getting Bs instead of As on a report card may not seem like a great sin to most students, Sue says. But in a culture and family structure where sacrifice by an older generation for the advancement—and education—of its children is a deep-seated tenet, feelings of shame for ‘failing’ can become unbearable, Sue says, noting that this pattern is most evident in families with immigrant parents and among foreign students sent to study at universities by their families.”
til next time keep it heemin
-Chris Harrold.

William Hung- She Bangs

This is just too funny. Til next time keep it heemin.
-Chris Harrold

POP

To add on to what Brandon's blog said, I agree because we were the smoothest group. Our presentation was on point and we didnt need emcees to indicate what was next on our list. However, pop was really fun and I had no idea things like that go down here at SF State. I have been to a couple events at Jack Adams Hall and they were nothing like POP!! There were funny moments, serious moments, emotional moments and even akward moments. Even if Im not in ETHS 210 next year I will definitley come back and see the new classes. But I bet they cant top our class, especially the dance group. That was the group I was in. I did my thang as well the other members and we really put on a show. Pop! til next time keep it heemin
-Chris Harrold

POP

Pop was really fun.  I was part of the movie crew.  So basically my job was just to be an extra in the movie and play one of the roommates who was watching football on television.  During POP, I sat next to timmon and we talked and watched the performance of our class as well as the other classes.  As for experience, I learned how to manage with what we had.  I learned how to manage my time so that I could go film my parts and to not be late of ditch class.  I thought the dance crew’s performance was the best.  I didn’t think that so many in our class were good dancers.  It took me by surprise.  I was kind of sad about the shadow puppets, because someone had to stand in the middle and hold the white sheet up so it drew everybody’s attention away from the real show.  The other classes were pretty nice, but like Irene said, they were really boring and it was like a talk show, that one guy didn’t even have any good jokes and I knew most of them.  Overall, I think we worked really hard and that our class did the best because nobody expected us to do what we did so we had a wow factor.
- Brandon

chinese food?

This so called Chinese food from panda express.  I have only eaten from panda express once in my life and I thought that it was really nasty.  I ordered the orange chicken I think?  Anyways it tasted nothing like the genuine thing.  It tasted so watered down.  I cant believe that people acting pass that off as Chinese food.  People actually like this kind of food.  My roommate tells me he loves panda express.  So then I gave him some real Chinese food that my dad brought me when he visited and my roommate could not stop eating it.  Guess that’s what happens when you never tried real Chinese food.  This must be why so many people think that Chinese food is greasy and gross.  If you want some real Chinese food, go to a place where the menu has English and Chinese words on it.

-brandon

             So I have a couple of friends that love watching Korean dramas.  At first, they kept telling me how good these dramas were.  My excuse for not watching them was that I used to watch dramas with my grandparents and it always made me sad to watch it, because dramas were too dramatic ha-ha.  Well that was two years ago. But recently I heard this song called hallelujah by Big Bang.  I really liked the song so I told my friend about it and he told me that they sing it for a drama and that T.O.P is in the drama call IRIS.  So being curious at how the song fit with the drama, I decided I would watch the pilot.  Instantly I was hooked.  It was one of the best dramas of 2009 so that’s probably why.  This made me seriously reconsider what I said about dramas. I didn’t finish yet because I’ve been busy but this drama has it all, guns, romance, explosions, and moments where I needed a tissue.

- Brandon =]

chinese food

When I was young, my grandparents always took me to go to restaurants with them to eat lunch.  We always went to Chinese restaurants, so I always wondered, how come we never went to McDonald’s or something like that.  Now I don’t even like McDonald’s and I like to eat dim sum, but I always wondered what it was.  My grandparents told me it was better not for me to know what was in it because I probably wouldn’t eat it anymore.  I learned that one of the dish that my grandparents eat was something gross and decided I would never eat that.  I thought that asian food was gross and used animals that nobody else would eat like monkeys or dogs.  After talking to my roommate, I discovered that Asians aren’t the only people to eat stuff like that.  Every culture has its own kind of food and they may seem gross to others, but its normal for them, so don’t bag on people just because they are different.