<p>Anyone else know what I mean? It’s like we’re not the same yet we are?</p>
<p>1 - Actual Asian
moved here when you were 2 (?), both your parents are college educated and making 100,000+ a year</p>
<p>2 - Actual Asian
moved here when you were 2 (?), both your parents worked hard just to get into the country, parents work in some type of factory</p>
<p>3 - Asian American
parents moved over, had you, both college educated and making 100,000+ a year</p>
<p>4 - Asian American
parents moved over, had you, both work in some type of factory.</p>
<p>5 - Adopted Asian
self-explaining, you pretty much have no Asian culture in you</p>
<p>Since when was being Asian bad for college admissions? It’s not like we’re all the same. The ones getting the great grades are probably the ones with educated parents who push their kids to be well educated. But that doesn’t make sense because my parents aren’t well educated but i am (at least to me). </p>
<p>I mean I didn’t have any advantages as a kid, I think I could pretty much pass as Mexican (or another URM) at this point because my parents didn’t teach me English, or help me with my homework, or read my application essays, last time I checked, I talked to the Insurance company because my dad didn’t know English, I had to skip a day of school to help my mom renew her permanent resident card, this could go on forever…</p>
<p>I don’t really know what the point of this thread is, but you know what I mean?</p>
<p>I don’t quite know what you mean. You wanna pass as Mexican American coz ur parents didn’t teach u english? I don’t think Parents teach kids english…they just learn it at school…and instead parents learn it from their kids! U’ll further understand how hard it gets for parents to learn English when u reach their age. Don’t blame ur Parents becoz they don’t know good English. I think you should rather be more grateful instead of…idk. :D</p>
<p>by the way, why wud u have to renew ur mom’s resident card? I know like Resident Cards are valid for like 10ish years? and if u r a perm resident…u/ur mom shud be citizen by now! (if they paid the taxes, and established the continuous residency at the US)</p>
<p>still confused. Anyway, that’s personal question to ask. </p>
<p>but seriously, they brought u up to the US so that you can grow up “independently” not with their “help” in the sense you feel they’d be able to do. Just because they can’t help you doesn’t mean they don’t want to. If you could actually put yourself in their position and think again, you’d feel embarrassed to expect so much from ur parents instead of trying to give back and trying to reward their hard work.
eh, sorry for that preaching. :s</p>
Agreed. I seriously don’t get why we’re not URM. There are also all sorts of ABCs/FOBs. In GENERAL, we’re just ‘better’ academically, so the government or admins of a univ just want more diversity and create this AA thing based on URM so they’re more lenient and all that crap. Life’s not fair, get used to it :)</p>