So I went into HSS library to get 2 books on that theme .Well,spent 3 hours reading it while travelling and while waiting for k class .It pretty circled around similar themes focusing on 2 main groups of people American Chinese and American Koreans .I gave the ABC a missed as there is constant debate and differentiation between 0.5 ,1 ,1.5 generations .Well the interviews focused on this specific group as they were the group with statistically most entrepreneurs .
From where I live ,the word entrepreneur meant cool stuff ,it meant having a cool idea cramming in a small office or even at home with a few friends working on my brain child .But it wasn't really the case ,it was no budding facebook idea in the book .Entrepreneurs referred to small little businesses ,shops ?While there are f and b businesses back home sprouting at a rapid rate ,the level of prestige seems to be starkly different .It would be cool if a bunch of friends or a family could set up a stall selling some novel item and aiming to break even after some time .But from what I have read ,the little stalls set up involved hard work of many decades and counting .In my mind I was thinking ,how can one possibly work so hard and not succeed ?Well that was the case for them ,working 14 hours on your feet and barely breaking even each year .
Something shocking was that kids were expected to help out and provide labour in the stall .Over here ,it seems like a nice gesture to do so but in the states it seems like a taken for granted thing for children to help their parents .
What amazed me the most was that in the end ,the kids continued working hard to aim to give their parents a better living .Well back here ,I get thanked by my mum for doing some chores and I appreciate that as it is not something to be taken for granted. I feel that I have the right to voice out my opinions when something is gender bias in the family like how my brother and dad do not clean up after eating .Although I did the cleaning up ,I felt that its my prerogative to voice out their mistakes .
Basically I think despite being in Asia ,my society has lost quite a lot of East Asian values which is not a completely bad thing .This society is pretty much westernised apart from certain things that remain the same like staying in the same house despite being 21 ,which can hardly be done due to space constraint .
I've heard quite a bit about the migration process of Singaporeans in the states .Its not quite the same as what was written of Chinese(ethnicity) migrants .
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