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I'm middle eastern and had the same experience.  Lots of travel to visit family and socializing with family friends on the weekends rather than school friends or playdates.

Cleaning, being neat and dressing properly, getting good grades were expected.  We were taught to take a lot of pride in our family, culture and history.  It would be shameful to look unkept, shameful for someone to come to our house and it be a mess/filthy, shameful to not achieve in school when you were given every opportunity to succeed.  Everyone around us was striving to do their best so even if you weren't the smartest kid in the group, you tried extra hard.  Family friends would ask what you got on your report card, what your SAT scores were, etc.  Yes, there is some pressure, but people around us expressed how important achievement and living to your full potential was and they supported that happening.[/quote]
May I ask what part of the Middle East you're from? I'm an Eastern European married to a Gulf Arab and from what I can see around his friends' families, there is just not a culture of high academic achievement the way it has been hammered into us.  There is definitely a high emphasis on family ties, relatives, culture, history, customs, being good boys and girls etc. but not especially on academics, and certainly not on extracurriculars. Am I just with the wrong Arab for that sort of thing?[/quote]

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