impossibly heavy expectations — put in place by my parents and society as a whole — and I thought it was totally normal.It was not.
And neither was I.I grew up in an extremely competitive school environment, and my friends were all class-toppers. Whatever success I had was reliably discredited or downplayed simply because of my ethnicity.
Success was the expectation.Most of my relatives are doctors and lawyers, so consumed with this ‘Model Minority’ status that they openly criticized family members’ imperfections, both physical and mental.
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