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[quote=Anonymous]I’m in a mixed family and I’ll be forthright and say that Asians look down on wind instruments with the exception (maaaybe) of flute. In East Asian immigrant cultures and in my native country, which was a former colonial country, piano and strings were widely adopted as aspirational western instruments that had positive associations with wealth, class and education. Band instruments were just something used in military bands or at nightclubs. So for highly educated but not wealthy families in my country, it would be like chasing a low-class lifestyle to take up a wind instrument.

Even now my family has prejudices against wind instruments and my mom makes disapproving noises when DD suggests she’ll take up the saxophone next year.

I can’t speak of all Asians, but my family is really snobby and uptight about signaling education and inner worth via hobbies and activities. Ballet class good, jazz class bad. Tennis good, soccer bad. Watercolor lessons good, pottery lessons bad. And so on. [/quote]

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