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Not an engineer, but I have I have Asian parents, if I were an engineer and worked for a genocidal dictator, they wouldn't care, that's success anyways.
So... yea...
people value success over ethics
welcome to life
society...
Do you think your Taiwanese background plays into that kind of thinking?
I'm from mainland China (currently residing in the US), profile pic is because I hate the 5-Star Red Flag and the politics it represents.
Probably something with Asian cultures's obsession with the idea of "success". Like... my parents literally wouldn't care if I became some corrupt government official as long as I don't get caught. Success is worshipped, failure is shamed. I talk shit about trump, and like my mom said "at least he became president, can you do that?"
I'm like: "naturalized citizens can't be president"
omg immediately less than 1 second later, mom goes: "but Gary Locke became Governor" (Gary Locke is a Chinese American)
And like you know Mamdani won, immedialy after, she told me "an immigrant managed to become Mayor, you are an immigrant just like him, why can't you do the same?" bruh... maybe I could if I didn't get so much emotional damage, mom.
Like they worship success, regardless of if they are "good" or "bad" people.
If you try to be a good person and you "fail" in life, you are considered worse than the bad person in power making a lot of money.
I'm like just so close to killing myself, even though I really wanna live, this is too painful, depression is too painful.
My parents are slowly killing my ethics and empathy, like one day I might just not care.
Either you die young with your morals intact, or you seek success and survival, and you corrupt your soul...
This world is cruel. The world wants you to be cruel to be able to even live a comfortable life.
I'm not asian but that bsounds like a lot of what i've heard called Asian Guilt. I've heard American Asians get a lot of flak for not measuring up to the likes of Jonny Kim. --personally, i'm finding it easier to deal with familial disappointment while living an ethical life as oppose to living an unethical life while still dealing with familial disappointment because i'm not gonna measure up to someone elses standards. Anyways, be good to yourself, there's no guarantee anyone else will. Have you gone for a walk lately?