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They will. My expectations are not nearly as onerous as the ones I/my friends grew up with. I am not demanding that they MUST be doctors; I am not demanding that they MUST go to Harvard.  Frankly they know even now that they have career choices of – medicine/dental; I banking; or law; and I’d live with engineering.  They must choose from those – I am not choosing for them.  I am also not requiring any particular school – they know that any ivy; MIT; Chicago; and a handful of others are all perfectly fine so they literally have to just get into 1.  None of this is impossible and frankly my friends growing up who HAD to be doctors (even though they wanted a different respectable profession – engineering) had it much worse.[/quote]

You can't be serious. I really hope that you're not serious.[/quote]

Couldn't be more serious. I was raised like this. So were all my cousins and Asian friends. This isn't foreign to me.[/quote]

I am Asian and this kind of backward thinking is what holds our community back. You have absolutely no idea what professions will be prestigious in the future.[/quote]

Sure -- I'm positive the time is coming in the next 40 yrs where doctors, lawyers and bankers will be pointed and laughed at and teachers and insurance claim payers will be revered. Plus it's about money too. And before people go on about -- well the richest people are creative geniuses like Bezos or whatever -- there's nothing you can do to inherently make anyone into a Bezos or an Elon Musk or whatever. Yet any average person can be made into a dr., lawyer or banker -- it simply isn't THAT hard.[/quote]

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