Characteristics of Asian immigrants in the United States

There are many immigrants in China. If they stand beside you, can you recognize them? BuzzFeed published a hilarious and thought-provoking article, "22 Signs of Growing Up with Immigrant Parents in China". What I want to say is that any kind of summary has its shortcomings, and this article is no exception. But whether it's accurate or not, at least it will make you laugh.

1。 Your report card and your friend's are different grading systems: A = average (average); B = below average (lower than expected); C = yes? No dinner; If it's D=don? T go home (then don't go home); f？ F = Find a new home (Let's find a new home! )

2。 You eat a lot of delicious Chinese food, but you don't know what to do, because your mother never allows you to enter the kitchen.

3。 Don't wear outside shoes at home.

4。 Growing up, you firmly believe that there are only three professions in the world: doctor, lawyer and accountant!

5。 When you encounter setbacks, you will never get much sympathy, and when you succeed, you will never get much appreciation.

6。 When you are in high spirits, your parents will soon throw cold water on you.

7。 A photo of you when you were a child must be Qi's hairstyle.

8。 When you were a student, your parents opposed your falling in love, but as soon as you graduated, your parents suddenly changed their minds and asked you in surprise. How can you not have a boyfriend/girlfriend? ! ?

9。 When you finally have someone, you'd better wish him/her not to be the following two kinds of people: 1. Other races; 2。 Artist.

10。 When you were a child, you were sent to learn violin, piano, or both. Your parents will always urge you to practice, but when you really want to be a professional musician, your parents will be scared out of their wits.

1 1。 You can either help at school, in a cram school like Kumon, or in your parents' Chinese restaurant. I don't know who is worse than you.

12。 Compulsory courses: math, math, math! Elective courses: drama, sports and religion.

13。 Your parents' ability to learn the latest technology is simply frightening, and this is just to have more channels to contact you.

14。 You live with the best and most unconscious environmentalist in the world. Will they? Reuse, maintenance and recycling? This slogan has been promoted to a new height.

15。 You will be surprised that your white friend's refrigerator is full of Camembert cheese, Brie cheese and so on. And your friend will not be too happy to find durian in your refrigerator.

16。 Your mother always helps when packing. She always stuffed a few pairs of disposable underwear, plus enough food for the whole family for a month.

17。 Your parents seldom take you to the seaside to play, even if they do, they will wrap themselves up from head to toe, and they are far more interested in eating seafood than going swimming.

18。 Your parents like things called plastic packaging and aluminum foil.

19。 When you go to China for the first time, you will find that you have more common topics with your Russian, Greek, Filipino and other immigrants in the United States than your peers in China.

20。 When you grow up, you will gradually find that parents' strict discipline is only a natural manifestation of their nervousness in living in a strange country.

Related reading: