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Strict Asian Home Essay

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Coming from a tradition and strict asian home my parents has affected the way I think and feel about myself. Being the only daughter and second oldest in the house with 6 brothers, both my parents put a lot of pressure on me because as a girl my role is to cook and clean. Both my parents were really strict towards me, most of the time I couldn’t go out and hang with friends because I had younger brothers around the ages 1 to 14 to take care of while they went to work. At school, I couldn 't join sport clubs or after school clubs because my parents wouldn’t allow, saying there’s no time, transportation was difficult, and their tradition views on girls can’t play sports and only boys can. My high school years was the toughest, because with the level of stress I had in class and the amount of assignments, my parents wasn’t much supported in me. For example, I have an essay and readings to …show more content…

Also I want to join organizations and mainly be involved in school more since I’m in college and my parents don’t really treat me the way they used to when I was in highschool. One way I can achieve this is to accept more of myself and be confidence so like saying hi to classmates. I don’t speak up much because I’m scare that my answers won’t be good enough and that I haven’t interact so much that I feel like no one will accept my opinion because I am known as quiet. Also so far in my college career, I’ve becoming more involved in school organization and events. Alverno really assist and help me with many of my skills in communication like social interactions between instructor and students, so far with all these helps I feel that my self-esteem has become better. Since coming to alverno, I’ve met many friends and so being able to talk to them rather it’s about homework assignment or just talking about life it’s something I want to continue do to improve my communications with

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