Quote: (11-08-2014 02:07 AM)Deluge Wrote:
Quote: (11-08-2014 01:58 AM)El Chinito loco Wrote:
I assume that's Australia? I know a lot of underachieving Chinese rich kids end up in Australia. They spend all their time shopping, buying houses, and driving around in race cars.
In America it's very different. All the asians from the middle to upper tier has the full intent of sending their kids to the ivy league. That's why cultural pressure is so different for the fobs in America. I remember there were slackers too but they were far outnumbered by the STEM types. The typical thing would be the rich millionaire fob parents would buy a condo or house outright with cash. Have their kids enrolled in multiple tutor/study programs to have them catch up. Then they would be on the fast track to the best schools by the time they were in their second year of high school.
They're definitely spending a lot of money on dope threads, but I've never seen any international students driving race cars, or buying houses, which is for their parents generation.
There's definitely a lot of cultural pressure on them here too. The international students spend all their spare time in the library (honestly so does everyone whose not doing a bullshit major), they're not slacking.
Its different here in Vancouver. Many times these kids have no choice and are sent here. Most times it would be the third tier kid, or the third smartest. First smartest are sent to the US top tier if possible. The second or third is sent to a place with long term security. Canada and Australia usually. The are enrolled in English classes, probably this new UBC college but are really here to gain citizenship, keep some real estate warm and make connections within the community.
A guy I used to work with was banging a sexy, tiny Chinese girl in his building. She was sent here at first against her will, but she had no choice. In reality leaving her shit hole in China was a godsend, and her quality of life shot up 1000%. In her words, she developed a size fetish (my workmate was 6'8" and 260 solid pounds) and had this fantasy of leading my mate through her home village in China like some Canadian moose. She never had a clue where her father got his money, nor why it never seemed to run out and no matter how many shopping trips to Leone or Holt Renfrew she could manage, the cash taps were always open, never dry.
I have a hundred stories like this.