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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had parents like that.  You're right that Indian parents do this strange thing where the kids are super coddled, but also tiger parented.

I hated it for the most part, and grew up wanting to be independent and do things for myself.

In India, EVERYONE has a cook/maid, so the middle class kids don't have to learn how to cook/clean.  And, education is mandatory.  As long as the kid is doing well in school (even if he's cheating), nothing more is expected.

Obviously not all Indian parents are like this, but there is some truth to it.  Flame away other Indians on this board.[/quote]

Are you a troll?  This does not represent the upper middle class experience of my cousins in India.  They do have in-home help, but not everyone does (like, for example, the people who provide the help who generally also have their own families).  Cheating would definitely not fly in my family.  And since most of my cousins ultimately lived in a dorm at some point, they did need to learn to cook/clean.  I know that you qualified your statements by saying not everyone is like this...but there are a lot of Indians in and out of India, and many more of them are unable to afford cooks/maids than are.  [/quote]

WTF are you talking about?

NP here: yes, [i]every UPPER MIDDLE CLASS family[/i] has hired help in India. If you have upper-middle-class cousins in India who don't have help in the house, then either your cousins are in deep financial shit that you don't know about or else they're just lying about something. That is weird.[/quote]

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