Why do Asians really get straight A's? - Project Gutenberg Consortia ...

OUTTAKES
Thank you very much for reading my book. I could not fit everything into my novel— for
one reason or another— so I decided to include this section of outtakes with proposed
scenes.
Scene: Chapter 2 – In Johnson's Room (first-person reflection)
Character: Johnson
Outtake:
The most popular excuse that Asian parents like to use to coerce their children
into becoming doctors and lawyers is the old “ we've suffered and struggled through so
many hardships when we were younger so we just want our kids to have the best life
possible ” justification; I like to call this justification the “ old bullsh*t routine. ”
First of all, every parent, not just Asian, uses the old bullsh*t routine for a
multifarious number of reasons: to get their kids to eat their vegetables, to get their
kids to go to bed, to get their kids to go to school, etc. For example, parents love to
say, “ I had to walk ten miles to school, ten miles back, in snow all the way up to my
waist even in the summer, while wearing a huge backpack and carrying a hundred
books in each hand. ” We are all cognizant of this old bullsh*t routine. This is just
parental propaganda to get their kids to do something, anything, like forcing their kids
to become doctors and lawyers.
Second, there are many Asian doctors and lawyers today, many who are very
wealthy and successful in America as well as the rest of the world. Then why are they
still forcing their own kids to become doctors and lawyers, even though there's no
more “ hardship? ” After all, these Asian kids didn't have to suffer or struggle with a
rough life growing up, since their parents are doctors and lawyers. The fact of the
matter is that it has nothing to do with struggles or hardships; it has everything to do