[ SECRET POST #2727 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2727 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

There are lots of times when I'd have preferred it if my parents were as hands-off as yours. I wasn't saying that it never happens. But would you say your mother was typical or representative of asian parents in general about how she brought you up, never trying to push her culture and values on you and never encouraging you toward her culture?

Because what I've heard from almost every asian person I know is not your experience. Yeah, there were always a few people whose parents were extremely hands-off about that stuff who ended up far more Americanized than the rest, but the ratio I remember from high school was something like one out of twenty. Maybe.

[(Anonymous)]

No, the thing is that she's trying to push me into it NOW. Now, when I've already decided for myself what my identity is. It's like now she's ashamed I've decided I'm more American than Filipino, because apparently it's embarrassing to have adult Filipino children who can't speak the language and don't take part in the traditions.

It wasn't necessarily that she was hands-off. If any part of the culture leaked through, it was the church-going and education and overachieving. I experienced my share of parental narcissism. But the uniqueness of the Filipino culture, that was something I didn't take part of.