Assuming Quote by Amy Chua

When you're an immigrant family, the upbringing, the mentality and the opportunities are all different.

— Kelvin Gastelum

One of the biggest things immigrant kids oftentimes feel is this big disparity between our parents and us. And our parents are staunch pragmatists,…

— Hasan Minhaj

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

— Margaret Mead

Obviously there are many, many ways of being an outsider, but having immigrant parents is one of them. For one thing, it makes you…

— Elif Batuman

With immigrant parents, they've had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they're trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just…

— Rupi Kaur

There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something…

— Junot Diaz

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

— Amy Chua

“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do too for…

— Scaachi Koul

The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with…

— Amy Chua

Both my parents were immigrants, as were many of their friends, the parents of the children with whom I grew up. Of course I…

— Jan C. Ting

Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by…

— Amy Chua

My parents are super westernized. My mom listens to western music, my dad was like a pub landlord so he properly embraced English life.…

— Romesh Ranganathan