i completely forgot about that outkast song, shame on me :(

Originally Posted by Kendoon

everyone get out of the way before i have sex with ALL OF YOU

Is that a threat or a promise?

I thought she was being satrical.

Originally Posted by Alchemist11

Wow.

A) You seemed to "like" what Kendoon was saying, ignoring the fact that the negative portrayal of asians was stereotypical. However, when a positive portrayal of asians is stereotypical you're the first to reject it. Nice.

B) It's very rare for people to drastically alter their habits and consequently their grades after a certain age. I've seen so many people say "oh no I screwed up first year can I still get into med school" - these same people never come back and say they got in, because guess what, it's not as easy to go from 60s to 95s in one semester just because "he/she felt like trying now".

Sure, people have a decision to study or not, but someone who has been studying hard their entire lives will find it 50x easier to get their work done compared to someone who hasn't. Also, as with anything, practicing studying so much makes you more efficient at it meaning they'll have an upper hand in that regard also.

Difference between "positively encourage children at a young age vs. bombarding them with totalitarian methods..." - few children can be encouraged, and to be honest it's just not as effective as forcing them to do something.

And ****ing LOL @ how you think "white" people have better relationships with their parents than asians do. That's the biggest joke of the year. Is that why I bet you've NEVER heard of an asian kid running away from home? Getting a tattoo or piercing against the wishes of their parents? Swearing at their parents? Breaking into their liquor cabinet to participate in under-age drinking?

And when they're older - people in Asia usually end up incorporating their parents into their home, i.e., they're not shipped off to some old age home and visited once every few months, they live with their children.

Rebutting an unsourced blanket statement with and unsourced blanket statement. You are pretty good at this.

Also, you mad.

Originally Posted by Shanel

Apparently this lady has also rejected homemade birthday cards from her kids because they were not good enough. How is that being a good parent?

k, that makes perfect sense to me. You don't want to make a kid think he/she can get away with doing a shitty half-assed job.

One of my favourite posts ever on the internet:

http://www.thebestpageintheu niverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule

I really hate the North-American culture of tell your kid 'you can be whatever you want to be!' or that they're 'great just the way you are'. Over generations this creates the bunch of lazy self-entitled ****tards we have wondering around today who just think they can get whatever job they want without even considering the work it takes to get there. It's a shame when you hear people calling things like an extra year in highschool a 'victory lap'.

I think it makes perfect sense to push your kids at a young age. I wish my parents had done things like put me in French immersion or forced me to learn an instrument (they were like 'lol k' when I said I didn't want to play the piano anymore when I was 7). This stricter 'asian' style of raising kids makes sense to me - kids don't know what's good for them.

Shitty childhood + good adult life > Fun childhood + barely-making-ends-meat adultlife

so having a well paying job and a good life are synonymous?

money =/= happiness.

lawl your name looks to me like mcmast-DURRRRR.

Originally Posted by Ownaginatios

k, that makes perfect sense to me. You don't want to make a kid think he/she can get away with doing a shitty half-assed job.

One of my favourite posts ever on the internet:

http://www.thebestpageintheu niverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule

rofl.

characharrchars

Originally Posted by Freija

I thought she was being satrical.

yea i'm pretty sure it's satirical as well...

Originally Posted by ReDorkulateD

yea i'm pretty sure it's satirical as well...

I thought that barely skimming half that blog entry...

tl;dr... how did this topic reach 5 pages again?

Originally Posted by mcmastergcdb

Ummm I think there should be a middle between the way wester people treat their kids and the way eastern parents treat their kids. For example, most of the western parents treat their kids like they are retarded and let them do w/e the fuk they want pretty much to not let their self-esteem come down. On the other hand, eastern parents have brought their kids into these better countries and try to pretty much act like they own their life now. I was not allowed to play any sports and shit because my rents thought it was dangerous and waste of time cause if your not gonna become Mats sundin or kobe bryant, there is no point. Even though, I know my parents meant well for me but I always have that regret that maybe I could've excelled in sports. I am pretty much mediocre in everything because I rebelled against my parents all the time by not getting good marks.

I think eastern parents should still force good manners and all of the rules on their kids but also let their kids enjoy every aspect of the life. Otherwise, I know many like me who have grown with regrets. Also, eastern parents will sacrifice more for their kids over western parents. However, western parenting seems better overall in a way that they let their kids choose what they want to be. So it might take a kid a bit to figure out what he likes, but once he figures that out, he works hard for it and excels @ it. On the other hand, I know many brown kids who are in medicine but wanted to be painter or photographer but their rentz didn't let them.

I was raised as a mix of the two styles and I plan to raise my own kids (eventually) the same way. I think both of the extremes have harmful effects on the kid that I'd rather avoid.

Originally Posted by berrberr

Rebutting an unsourced blanket statement with and unsourced blanket statement. You are pretty good at this.

Also, you mad.

Where exactly did you see a statement where I said Asian children have a better relationship with their parents than white kids do? I ****ing dare you to quote me and find that statement, because I was quite careful not to ever write that.

I merely said that Asian children have a worse relationship with their parents is a stupid statement to make. Then I proceeded to ask a few questions about Asian children in order to promote the fact that the previous poster's statement was stupid.

Not once did I ever write that Asian parents and children have a better relationship than their caucasian counterparts. I might have been implying that, but because I never wrote it, you're lost for saying that I wrote "an unsourced blanket statement". I wrote multiple questions in order to help generate the evidence for my point.

So congratulations, you totally just failed at trying to discredit my point. You mad?

Originally Posted by Tailsnake

I was raised as a mix of the two styles and I plan to raise my own kids (eventually) the same way. I think both of the extremes have harmful effects on the kid that I'd rather avoid.

Same. As a kid I was aloud to play lots of video games and sports, but I was also encouraged to do well in school.

Originally Posted by Alchemist11

Where exactly did you see a statement where I said Asian children have a better relationship with their parents than white kids do? I ****ing dare you to quote me and find that statement, because I was quite careful not to ever write that.

I merely said that Asian children have a worse relationship with their parents is a stupid statement to make. Then I proceeded to ask a few questions about Asian children in order to promote the fact that the previous poster's statement was stupid.

Not once did I ever write that Asian parents and children have a better relationship than their caucasian counterparts. I might have been implying that, but because I never wrote it, you're lost for saying that I wrote "an unsourced blanket statement". I wrote multiple questions in order to help generate the evidence for my point.

So congratulations, you totally just failed at trying to discredit my point. You mad?

First off, wow you are mad.

Second, you did write statements masked as questions.

"Is that why I bet you've NEVER heard of an asian kid running away from home?"

There you are saying Asian kids never run away from home. And that would actually be a great definition for a blanket statement.

" I might have been implying that, but because I never wrote it, you're lost for saying that I wrote "an unsourced blanket statement". I wrote multiple questions in order to help generate the evidence for my point. "

Lolwut? You speaking English there? I'm "lost for saying"? What the **** does that even mean? I really hope that you don't have hard ass Asian parents, because if so they clearly failed and raised a moron.

This thread is the best thread to hit MI in a while.

Unfortunately, that's still not saying much.