How To Be the Perfect Asian American Parent?
By Gene Yee, Ph.D.
Associate Editorial Director
New York
While we are all involved in helping to combat stereotypes of Asian people in the media and in our society, we also need to be able to laugh at ourselves.
Email us your jokes, send them to Jokes@AsianConnections.com - Be a little more lenient on the 7:00pm curfew.
- Don't ask where the other point went when your child comes home with 99 grade on his/her report card.
- Don't "ai-yah" loudly at your kid's dress habits.
- Don't blatantly hint about the merits of Habad (Harvard), Yeil (Yale), Purinsiton (Princeton), or Stamfud (Stanford).
- Don't reveal all the intimate details of your kid's life to the entire Asian community.
- Don't ask your child, "What are you going to do with your life?" If he/she majors in a non-science field.
- Don't give your son a bowl haircut or your daughter two acres of bangs.
- Don't try to
set your kid up on a date in anticipation of their poor taste or inept social skills.
- Incorporate other phrases besides, "Did you study yet?" or "When are you getting married?" into your daily conversations with your children.
- Don't ask all your kid's friends over the age of 21 if they have a boy/girlfriend yet.
(Yes, Ph.D. in life sciences; yes, I studied kung-fu; and no, my lips do
match my dialog.) AsianConnections thanks Gene Yee, Ph.D., for his jokes. --------------------
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