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From a child-of-immigrant perspective, there's TONS of bias, especially from the uneducated in my cultural community (YES, there are East Asians who DO NOT have a university education...especially boomer mainlanders who grew up during the Cultural Revolution). Some also take advantage of their newly adapted country and very upset when their children integrate. You see this LESS with the current parent generation (i.e. GenX/Xennial/Millennial), but there's STILL a tinge (or maybe it just doesn't really exist just yet, considering the kids are still very young). From a CBC (Canadian born Chinese) parent perspective, I get this weird vibe that the (East Asian) immigrant parents in my son's class dislike/resent me because I'm "not like them" in a way that they would never think if I wasn't Asian. Maybe it's just me overthinking. Demographics at my son's school are more or less Asian (mostly Chinese or Indian) and White (with A LOT of kids having Ashkenazi ancestry. I don't think there are that many who are Anglo-Protestant on both sides). ETA: I feel like a lot of people, especially educated White people, choose to ignore this, even when it's right in front of them.

Just remember that as a teacher, it's really important to learn about your kids' cultures and expectations from the old country. It often takes three generations to fully integrate to the social norms and the actual immigrant adult is unlikely to do so unless they came when they were very young (we're talking under 25 or even younger (think undergrad)) to attend school or some sort of apprenticeship/internship. There's A LOT of stress and anxiety coming from the child because they often have one set of expectations at school and another at home. And it's even harder if the parents don't speak English and/or are working all the time. Also, some might appear to be privileged to an outsider, but at home? Different story.

Is it a cultural thing? However, I can guarantee you that zero East Asian families would approve. I know families that practically have their kids’ majors picked out while they’re still in elementary school!

With all that's going on in the world, I'm beginning to wonder whether Canada is the only sane country left. And that's only if the Liberals win on April 28.

In my world, even women who stay home (and never before kids) were told to go to university because they would never find a suitable husband otherwise. Think of it from the old fashioned view of going to a four year school for that “MRS” degree.

Same here. Though I’ve been working from home since late 2009 when I was running a small corporation (my blog). That closed around the time my son was born. I’m now WFH in philanthropy. and a lot of people in my area don’t become parents until their mid-30s. Moms in my son’s class (he’s in Grade 1, so the kids are all 6 or have just turned 7) range from mid-30s to nearly 50 and the dads are mid-30s to mid-50s.

Canadians: anyone watching the French debate? I’m hearing that it’s basically a bunch of kids bickering. The English debate is tomorrow.

This! As long as the pasta is completely submerged, you’re fine. Learned this trick watching a cooking show (don’t remember which one).

I'm guessing that tap water was not suitable for drinking at the time. I'm unsure if it still is in Hong Kong. Boiling kills off bacteria (like why you always make baby formula with water that has been boiled).

Growing up in an immigrant household, we'd always have hot water available - you don't drink cold or room temp water if you're an immigrant from Hong Kong. Most immigrant Asian households have one of these. Some have a filtered water tap that dispenses hot AND cold. Note: My grandmother scolded me for drinking cold water until I was a teenager. Yes, Poh Poh was pretty toxic by Canadian/western standards.

Wait. What? Steve Martin Wrote a Musical?

@Cloud9Shopper This is why some churches put everyone in choir gowns. You can wear whatever the h3ll you want (as long as it's not just underwear or a bathing suit)...and you won't get some crazy person like that one.

Jerry Springer told him? #sorry

Holy wow! Many Québécois who normally vote Bloc Québécois, a separatist party for an independent Quebec are going to vote Liberal…. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe765e43a06a8037992eb89d40c39cb8d2ec0df7c38674333130d003100cc966/BQKIOWVBYZEYHF4G4S2LUHW7TM

This is really bad, but I'm LOL-ing at the guy who was electrocuted in the storm.

Imagine they were voting NDP (far left).....I bet it would have stolen even MORE! Many, many years ago (i.e. before I was old enough to vote). I usually only see one sign, but recall many years ago, a neighbour had TWO (is that even possible?). My friend's mom was for one party and her dad, another. They were still together after the election.

My mother worked in IT so we got a computer relatively early (1986 or 1987), a DOS machine. It also came with BASIC and I remember logging into a program called Samples where there was a program that played music (it had a few selections. You pressed A or something like that to hear a really badly played song). We also had PrintShop (where I wasn't allowed to print banners because it used up way too much paper on our dot matrix) and a few games. That machine lasted us about six years!! I even had Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on it!

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Our internet was connected to our home fax number (remember those?) because my dad's work would often send him stuff at home (he was sort of on a hybrid schedule some 30 years before it was a "thing"). So yeah, I'd lose connection whenever my dad got a fax! We had high speed at school and was glad when I went to university because there was ZERO disruption online.

Some people don't include staged Disney musicals (save for Aida, which was never made into a movie) or jukebox productions.

Last night was my husband's cousin's Seder, so it was matzoh, matzoh ball soup, brisket, salmon, chicken, coleslaw, vegetables, potatoes. I also had gefilte fish. I think half the guests had it as it's pretty polarizing.

Governor Josh Shapiro and his family have been evacuated from the Governor's Mansion And during Passover too.

Are his ratings going down? Something a little different: I follow a woman who always shares videos of introducing different cultural foods to her boomer immigrant parents. Based on her accent, I could tell that she's ABC/CBC (American Born Chinese/Canadian Born Chinese). Recently, she shared a vid of her parents having Italian food. I was really surprised that they've never had lasagna before...or many other Italian/North American Italian dishes. My own parents introduced me to lasagna when I was, maybe, six or seven (before that, it was only spaghetti...I only liked long noodles back then). Again, like many child-of-immigrant experiences I see on social, it was nothing like my own...or that of my family's circle growing up. And I was a child in the 80s, teen in the 90s. My dad thinks it's just me not understanding my privilege. I think the only cuisines I introduced my parents to are North American Jewish food (beyond deli or bagels and lox...the latter was introduced to me by my mother) and Lebanese/other Middle Eastern. My parents STILL don't get my obsession with hummus. I may or may not have introduced tacos to them. It wasn't something we had a lot of growing up. But then again, there weren't that many Taco Bells where we lived back in the day.

Same. For when I travel, anyway. I have a regular sized wireless at home/office.

Interesting that it isn't by bank transfer (I don't mean Interac but the "Pay Bills" page when you log into your bank). That's how I pay my son's tuition - set them up as a payee and go from there. To non-Canadians: Interac is one way we transfer money electronically to people. It's through our bank, not a third party like Venmo.