Is your kid "manufactured"?

dfbdfb
Sat, 01 Aug 2015 16:21:59 +0000

And it’s not just South Asian families—it occurs to me that a lot of the comparisons with “American culture” aren’t really drawing a comparison with American culture, but rather with the upper- and high upper-middle-class (and urban, and white, and so on) cultural assumptions one tends to run into on CC as the assumed default. You may well get many of the things people have pointed to on this thread as “Indian” or “Asian” behaviors from lower-middle-class or racial/ethnic minority or whatever families whose immigrant backgrounds are enough generations ago that they don’t really have a meaningful echo anymore.