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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m wondering if criticizing humanities majors is a more cultural thing. I’m an immigrant, and humanities majors are definitely looked down upon as there aren’t much career prospects in my home country for them as there would be for an engineer or a doctor for instance. 
Also, as a high school student in my home country,  it’s almost unheard of to go into a humanities major if you’re good at Math/ STEM. 
It’s awesome to see kids in the US who are good at STEM, deliberately choose humanities majors and thrive. [/quote]

I think that’s only immigrants from Asian countries.   How could everybody be an engineer or doctor?  That would be weird.  [/quote]

Not everyone is an engineer or a doctor. Most people are poor. Other people are business people who don't need a college education. [/quote]

NP here. Wow this thread is something.

As a 2nd gen Indian American, I don’t want my kids to be engineers or doctors. Those are vocational careers (yes, half my family did that and they all regret not studying other things).

I want them to have the freedom to study whatever they want. To read as much as they want. And they are at their Ivies as humanities majors. Older one has a IB internship lined up as a history/comparative lit major.[/quote]

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